Forcibly mated to the cruel hybrid king Zanthos at sixteen, Axera flees into the dark...amidst chaos and betrayal she soon discovers she has escaped with something precious and in the middle of a demented scheme that could ruin the Lycaon empire. Alone and injured, she is discovered by a rare and powerful family called the Wallachians, she is then taken under their care... Living in secrecy for two years, Axera learns of a parasitic clan that is slowly wiping out her kind, but with her own worries, she almost forgets that the most dangerous of them all is her vicious hybrid mate with the taste for her intoxicating blood...