Maeve Holloway has spent her entire twenty-two year long life branded a “wolfless failure” by her pack. Her stepmother banishes her to live in the kennels after her mother dies, and her fated mate, Jace, publicly rejects her. To settle the Crown’s debts, her father sells her as a tribute bride to Cassian, the Lycan King rumored to have killed all three of his previous brides. Everyone expects Maeve to meet a gruesome end—but when Cassian sees her, he does nothing