He was trained to kill monsters. He never expected to belong to one.

Nyra Vale has spent his life hunting werewolves?cold, precise, and unshaken. It's the only way he knows how to survive after the night his family was torn apart. Wolves don't get mercy. They don't get second chances. And Nyra never misses his target.

Until his next mission.

Kael Draven is not just any werewolf?he's an Alpha. Powerful, feared, and completely untouchable. The kind of monster Nyra was raised to destroy. But the moment they meet, everything shifts. Because Kael doesn't see an enemy staring back at him.

He sees his mate.

Nyra refuses to accept it. Fate doesn't make mistakes, and it doesn't bind a hunter to the very creature he's meant to kill. But the bond is real?pulling at him, breaking down his control, making him question everything he thought he knew.

Kael should eliminate the threat Nyra poses to his pack. Instead, he protects him. Keeps him close. Watches him with a hunger that has nothing to do with violence. And the closer Nyra gets, the harder it becomes to tell where hatred ends and something far more dangerous begins.

With hunters closing in and war on the horizon, Nyra is forced to make a choice: finish the mission he was trained for, or betray everything he's ever known for the Alpha who refuses to let him go.

In a world where loyalty means survival and love can get you killed, falling for the wrong person could destroy them both. But walking away might be the one thing neither of them can do.