She came to Greywatch for one reason: to find her missing sister. When the royal seer names Sophie as the king's bride, the palace doors she's spent months trying to open are suddenly within reach.
Alpha King Darius offers her a bargain. Marry him before the seventh sunset, and he'll help her search the palace. Separate bedrooms. No mating claim. A divorce when she wants it. Sophie can live with those terms. She can even live with a husband who wishes she were a wolf.
Then a blade flashes at their wedding feast. Darius shifts to save her, and his wolf calls to Sophie as its mate in front of the entire court.
She feels nothing. But in the quiet of his rooms, when the king who can command an army asks her to stay a little longer, she finds herself wanting to.
A vial taken from the assassin bears her sister's handwriting. It leads Sophie to a shuttered infirmary and an experiment designed to make a wolf believe he's found his mate. Someone in Greywatch knows how to counterfeit the very thing Darius swears he feels.
Now Sophie must find her sister before the palace moves her again. And as the evidence closes in around Darius's family, she has to ask herself how much she trusts the man beside her-and what he'll do if she asks him to let her go.