Read on for fated mates, magical conspiracies, grumpy/protector tension, and a lion shifter who falls first, hard, and forever. HEA Guaranteed.

She came for answers. He became the question she couldn’t stop asking.

Dr. Aerin Thorne wasn’t supposed to fall for anyone—especially not the lion shifter tasked with watching her every move. But as the tension in Mistwhisper Falls built to a breaking point, the truths buried beneath ancient runes weren’t the only ones rising to the surface.

Captain Leo Maddox had one job: keep the town safe. Preferably by keeping the infuriatingly brilliant fae academic at arm’s length. But her presence stirred more than his suspicion—she ignited memories that weren’t his, instincts that shouldn’t exist, and a mating bond that refused to be ignored.

When the magic that built the town begins to unravel and founder secrets surface with claws of their own, Aerin and Leo are thrust into a war centuries in the making—one that will demand impossible trust, devastating sacrifice, and a love strong enough to rewrite destiny itself.

Because some betrayals don’t break bonds. They forge them.