"You've found your mate," my sister says. "What do you mean she belongs to Jace?" "She isn't his mate," I snarl. Kayden exhales. "She's his slave." Tyler Storm is destined to lead every werewolf pack on the West Coast into a new era of prosperity, but first, he has to survive himself. Controlling an inner wolf is dangerous enough. Add a vampiric bloodline to the mix, and the result is a volatile predator barely held together by discipline and rage. Then he finds his mate. She's chained at the feet of a rival Alpha. Broken. Claimed. Untouchable. And taking her would mean war. Abbygail has long since stopped hoping for freedom. Survival means obeying the monster who slaughtered her parents and enduring his cruelty with as little damage as possible. What she doesn't know is that her suffering is part of something far larger. A calculated move designed to topple a king and shatter a peace treaty generations in the making. When a sacred mating bond, twisted, cursed, and defiled, snaps into place, Tyler loses control, and Abbygail discovers that she may have been beaten down… but she was never truly broken. Together, they'll have to decide whether love is powerful enough to undo a curse, challenge a throne, and burn an entire world to the ground.