Ayla Carter never thought she’d shift. For eighteen years, she was the wolfless girl. The Beta’s orphan. The one everyone pitied—and whispered about. Her uncle always said the trauma blocked her wolf, that someday it might come. But under a blood moon on her eighteenth birthday, everything changes. Ayla awakens not just a wolf—but a silver wolf, rare and long thought extinct. And waiting for her is Damon Blackthorn, the dangerously magnetic Alpha of the Shadowfang Pack—her pack’s sworn enemy—who claims her with a single, possessive truth: “You’re mine.” Bound by a mate bond she never wanted, Ayla is pulled into a world of forbidden desire, buried secrets, and deadly lies. Why did her uncle hide her wolf? Why is her bloodline so rare? And why did he want to keep her from Damon at all costs? As passion burns and the bond deepens, Ayla must unravel the truth about her family, her wolf, and the war between packs—before fate claims them both.