Pearl Hilton has survived more than most people could endure; a murdered father, an abandoned childhood, an abusive foster home, and a lifetime of being unwanted.She became a crime detective to hunt the ghost who murdered her father cold blooded... but the world she thinks she understands shatters the night she caught her boyfriend cheating.Broken and humiliated, Pearl expects the moment to destroy her.Instead, a handsome stranger steps in; dangerous, tall, golden-eyed… and terrifyingly protective.Alpha Klaus De'marco.A man who has watched her from the shadows for five years.A man whose wolf has waited for her with a hunger that borders on obsession.A man who finally snaps when he sees her fall apart.Before Pearl can understand why this stranger feels like a storm she can’t outrun…She wakes up far from home, trapped in a world she didn’t know existed, claimed by an alpha whose patience hides something far more dangerous than rage.He says she’s his to claim.He says she was born for him.And he says he’ll never let her go.But Pearl doesn’t believe him…not until the night the truth comes for her teeth bared.And the one person she always longed for me to returns with secrets that could destroy everything, including the man she’s beginning to fall for.Some truths break a person Some truths awaken a person Pearl is about to learn the difference.