Seventeen-year-old Aria Blake has always felt different — the nightmares, the heightened senses, the strange way animals react to her presence. But growing up in a small town with a protective adoptive family, she’s always brushed it off as imagination… until she gets accepted into an elite university abroad.

In the dark, ancient city of Aeloria, Aria is ready to reinvent herself — to leave behind the weird dreams and find her place in the world. But on her first day, she meets Lucien Thorne — cold, arrogant, and as breathtakingly magnetic as he is infuriating. And he hates her — for no reason she can understand.

What she doesn’t know is: Lucien is her fated mate. A powerful vampire-werewolf hybrid cursed centuries ago — sealed by a witch to lose his full powers until he learns to truly love and be loved. Every full moon, he’s tormented by the beast within, barely surviving the agony. Her arrival triggers long-dormant instincts in him — ones he’s spent years suppressing.

As Aria uncovers her hidden identity — a rare-born Alpha female hidden in the human world to protect her from ancient enemies, the truth begins to unravel.

Her body starts to change.

Her dreams become visions.

And her connection to Lucien grows unbearable.

But danger brews in the shadows — a secret faction of vampire purists wants Lucien dead, and Aria may hold the power to destroy or save him. Together, they must face what binds them — or risk being torn apart by fate.