Warning: This book contains violence, explicit s****l content, and scenes that may be disturbing to some readers, such as coercion and emotional and physical harm. Reader discretion is strongly advised. **** I was thirteen years old when the most feared Alpha rode into our small village. My sister was fourteen, but already marked by destiny. The Alpha was sixteen, but whispered about in fearful tones by warriors twice his age. They described him as cruel, cold-blooded, and untouchable. He took my sister's hand, promising protection, loyalty, and a future bound in blood and power, bound by an old oath sworn between our fathers. Our father died many years ago, and the promise was all that kept us from ruin. But none of this would happen because two days after her eighteenth birthday, my sister's lifeless body was discovered in the depths of our favorite lake, broken and surrounded by unanswered questions. The village whispered murder while the Alpha offered no tears or answers, only silence. **** A year later, bound by the same promise, I stood at the altar, surrounded by wolves who bowed their heads in terror, forced to pledge forever to the same man who promised my sister the world, but there were no such promises for me, only loud, cold silence.