When Sera Crowder’s father drowns at Broken Ferry, grief is only the beginning. With moon-debt hanging over her family, the reeve moves to claim her young brother, Finn, as payment. To save him, Sera makes the only choice she can live with: she goes with Alpha Kellan Morcant, the dangerous wolf who steps in with power, threat, and a bond neither of them can deny. But Marshline Keep is no refuge for the weak. Surrounded by suspicious pack wolves, brutal debt-law, and a Court that sees her as property, Sera refuses to bow. Kellan may be her fated mate, but she has no intention of becoming anyone’s chain-bound claim. And when old law, pack politics, and a mark she never asked for pull her deeper into his world, desire becomes tangled with defiance, and survival starts to look a lot like war. As Howl Court closes in and Finn is used as leverage, Sera and Kellan are forced into a fight bigger than either of them: against the wolves who would break her, the laws that would chain her, and the enemies who would use love as a weapon. In a world ruled by blood, pack loyalty, and old cruelty, Sera must decide whether to keep running from the Alpha who took her—or stand beside him and become the woman no one can ever own.