The night Garnet’s mother died, her last words were not “I love you”—they were “Never let him mark you.” For twenty-seven years, Garnet has lived by that warning. Now, she walks into the heart of the Northern Pack’s fortress, dressed in stolen silks, her scent masked, her magic bound—ready to fulfill her mother’s final, unfinished vengeance. The curse that turned her blood to poison at puberty, that kills every woman in her line before thirty, was forged by the Thorne Alpha’s blood magic. And Ka