Liora, a Moon-Deer healer, braves the Forbidden Forest to gather herbs for her wounded junior apprentice, only to accidentally poison herself with Moonheat Flower. In her desperate hour, she forms a fated bond with Ronan, a comatose black-maned direwolf Alpha. She soon discovers she carries his child—just as Ronan arrives with his pack to hunt down whoever broke his sacred vow of abstinence. Torn between the fearsome Alpha lord and her sharp-tongued yet soft-hearted junior, Liora must hide her p
