Human girl Elieen was orphaned by werewolves—and then accused of betraying her own kind. Her village gave her two choices: a brothel bed or the forest floor. Elieen chose the trees. She found Alpha Ulric instead. A werewolf king with a bounty on his head, and his wolf Ethan. He shifts between beast and man—and his two forms don’t share memories. In one breath, he protects her. In the next, he wants her dead.She doesn’t know the wolf and the man are the same. She doesn’t know he helped end her parents’ lives. That night, as he heals her, Ulric’s memories return in a flood: her assassination attempt, her mercy, her place at his side as his fated mate. Attraction grows in the spaces between danger and distrust—but a larger conspiracy is rising, and their tangled hearts may be the first thing it destroys...
