I'm marrying the monster who murdered my family. And I'm going to kill him on our wedding night. Five years ago, Cain Riverscar-the Pack Killer-tore through my pack like a force of nature. He slaughtered everyone I loved. He murdered my father, the alpha, and left me the sole survivor of the Ashenheart Pack. Now I'm walking into his fortress wearing white and carrying a silver dagger hidden beneath my dress. He thinks I'm coming as a peace offering. A bride to end the war between our people. He's wrong. I've spent five years training for this. Waiting for this. Living for the moment I can drive silver through his heart and watch the life drain from his eyes, just like he did to my father. The binding ceremony is in three days. Under the new moon, I'll speak vows that will tie me to the man who destroyed my world. I'll smile. I'll play the part of the dutiful bride. And then I'll make him bleed. But nothing about Cain Riverscar is what I expected. He's not the mindless killer I imagined. He's controlled, lethal, haunted by secrets that lurk in those steel-gray eyes. And when he looks at me, I feel something I shouldn't-a pull that goes bone-deep, a connection that terrifies me. "I know why you're here," he tells me. "I know about the dagger. And I'm going to let you try." What kind of monster accepts his own assassination? The kind with secrets that could shatter everything I believe. The kind my father called the night he died. The kind who might be the only thing standing between me and a darkness I can't even comprehend. They say Cain Riverscar is judge, jury, and executioner of corrupted packs. They say he shows no mercy. They never mentioned he'd be my fated mate. Now I'm bound to the Pack Killer by vows and fate, standing on a knife's edge between vengeance and truth. Between the past that haunts me and a future I never saw coming. One of us won't survive this marriage. I just have to make sure it's him.