Two days before her twenty-fifth birthday, Alina Greer, a hybrid Lycan princess —part Lycan, part fae —finds her life turned upside down. Lost to the human world for over twenty years, she is accidentally returned to the Lycan Kingdom by her fated mate, Alpha Maltin Dwight —a cursed, immortal Alpha who has lived for more than a thousand years.
Maltin is bound by a cruel prophecy: the moment he finds his mate, he will also find his death. Loving Alina means losing his immortality —and his life.
Desperate to return to the human world, Alina makes countless futile attempts to escape the Lycan realm. Yet fate relentlessly leads her back to Maltin. Slowly, she begins to relent —to trust him, to accept the mate bond, and to learn about her true home: the Lycan world.
Just as Alina starts to embrace her feelings, she uncovers a devastating truth about her identity and her mother’s past from an unknown source. When she told Maltin, he confirmed it to be true —and revealed his own hidden identity.
Overwhelmed by betrayal, pain, and anger over Maltin’s deception, Alina flees in search of her mother and her lost heritage. She leaves Maltin facing an impossible choice: pursue and embrace his mate at the cost of his life, or break the mate bond to preserve his immortality.
Will this cruel twist of fate allow the newly discovered love between Alina and her mate to flourish? Or will the weight of buried truths and broken trust tear them apart forever?