Kira Blackthorne has spent ten years as a rogue, surviving on scraps and dealing with the crushing weight of her sister's death. That day, her father looked at her with dead eyes and asked, "Why did she die but not you?" The Alpha's daughter had everything before that day.
Mira, who was seven years old, drowned in the banned river while Kira stood there and did nothing. Eighteen-year-old Kira ran away because she felt guilty and her father had turned her down. There, she learned how to live as the worst kind of outlaw—hounded, hated, and broken.
In a cruel turn of events, on her 28th birthday, she finds out that her mate is Zander Nightfall, the most feared Alpha in five regions. Even though Zander saved Kira from bad hunters, he doesn't care about her at all and won't even touch her, even though she is desperately trying to prove she deserves his love.
But when Zander brings home another woman who looks and sounds like Mira and remembers things from seven years ago, Kira's world falls apart again. In front of her, her dead sister seems to be alive and taking the mate who was meant to heal Kira's broken heart.
Now Kira has to find the dark magic that brought Mira back to life, deal with a mate bond with a man who loves a ghost, and face the terrible truth: some resurrections cost a life. Now, Kira might not make it through this time.

I was watching everything we'd fought for fall when my own pack turned against me.


The System's reveal that there was no real escape - only different cages - had shattered something in all of us. But while Kira was exploring shadow-spaces and Jake was trying to understand the cosmic consequences, I had a more immediate problem.


"This has gone too far, Alpha," my beta Sarah said, stepping between me and the fictional refugees we'd been defending. "We need to send them back to their stories before we all get erased."


"Send them back to what?" I asked. "Those stories are broken now. There's nothing left to go back to."


"Then let them figure out their own solutions," Sarah shot back. "Our first duty is to our own pack, not to every fictional character who wants freedom."


Chapter 48 - The Alpha's Evolution