: She's been poisoning her fated mate for three years. He's been letting her. Thalia Ashford knows forty-seven ways to kill with plants and she's using them all on Alpha Kade Blackthorn, one microdose at a time. Three years ago, he executed her father for treason at dawn. Two months later, the mate bond snapped between them like a cosmic joke. She accepted it with a smile and began her revenge, hiding wolfsbane in his food, watching him weaken, waiting for the day his wolf finally breaks. But Kade isn't the monster she expected. He's gentle with her, patient with the pack, and devastatingly in love with the woman slowly killing him. And when Thalia discovers she's pregnant with impossible hybrid twins, her wolf refuses to let her finish what she started. Then she overhears a conversation that shatters everything: her father was innocent. The real traitor is Kade's trusted Beta, and he's been watching her poisoning with amusement, waiting for the Alpha to die so he can claim both the pack and Thalia for himself. Now Thalia faces an impossible choice: confess her crimes to the mate she's destroyed and risk losing everything, or stay silent and let the true murderer win. With her twins lending her forbidden Alpha power, a mate bond fraying under the weight of lies, and a challenge that could end with Kade's death, Thalia must decide what she's really been fighting for – vengeance or the truth. Because some poisons can't be purged. Some betrayals can't be forgiven. And some loves are worth dying for... even when you're the one who pulled the trigger. A dark paranormal romance where revenge tastes like wolfsbane, fated mates are born from blood, and redemption requires more courage than murder ever did.