Luna Hart has spent her whole life in the shadow of her family's disgrace, so when she's chosen as Alpha Kane Voss's fated mate, she lets herself hope it might finally change things. Instead, Kane rejects her in front of the entire pack on their bonding night, shattering her in public and sending her fleeing into forbidden territory. What she doesn't know is that her rejection was never about her at all and the wolf that finds her in the forest isn't packed. He's Ronan Ashgrave, the Lycan King: older, more powerful, and far more dangerous than any Alpha, a being packs are taught to fear and never approach. Ronan doesn't punish her. He protects her. And the closer Luna gets to him, the more she uncovers: a manufactured mate-bond, a generations-old curse tied to her bloodline, and a political war brewing between the wolf packs and the Lycan throne with her caught at the center of it. As Luna untangles who orchestrated her humiliation and why, she has to decide whether to fight to reclaim the life that was stolen from her, or step into a power she never knew she had one that could make her a queen, or get her killed. Torn between the Alpha who betrayed her and the king who claimed her, Luna's choice won't just decide her future. It'll decide the fate of every wolf in the territory.