Eira exists in emotional numbness—a blank slate untouched by anger, joy, pain, or desire. Unaware she carries werewolf blood, she's never shifted, her origins shrouded in mystery. For twenty-four years, she's navigated life as human, obedient and detached, until the Alpha discovers her bleeding in the forest. He claims her as his mate, but his prize is hollow—a living body devoid of feeling or reciprocal love. Can his dark revelations crack through Eira's frozen heart? What truths about her own shadowed past will shatter her carefully constructed existence? She resists his claim. He refuses to release her.