“I’ve finally found you, my woman,” his eyes burned with a dangerous light as they swept over her bruised, fragile form. “They’ll pay for every scar they left on you—with their lives.”

For the first seventeen years of her life, Alana had never known the meaning of freedom—let alone happiness. Locked away in the cold, dark basement of her family's home, she lived under the crushing weight of a crime she didn’t commit—the alleged murder of her own mother.

Beaten, reviled, and fed only scraps, she survived each day in silence, believing this was her inescapable fate.

When the clock struck midnight, a stranger appeared—an imposing yet magnetic alpha with a voice that shattered the silence of her prison—He claimed she was the long-lost daughter of the Alpha King…and his fated mate, the one he'd spent years searching for.