"I came to Forks to debunk monsters. Instead, I discovered I was destined to protect them."

Dr. Kira Thorne built her career destroying supernatural myths-until she encountered a shadow wolf with silver eyes that haunted her dreams. As a cryptozoologist and YouTube debunker, she'd exposed every hoax from Bigfoot to lake monsters. But when mysterious sightings in the Olympic Peninsula forests led her to ranger Dante Blackwater, everything she thought she knew about reality shattered.

Dante was supposed to remain hidden. An exiled shapeshifter prince, betrayed by his own pack and stripped of his throne, he'd found refuge working as a park ranger in the misty depths of Washington's ancient forests. The last thing he needed was a brilliant scientist asking dangerous questions about the creatures lurking in the shadows.

But when their blood mingles during a chance encounter, an ancient guardian pact awakens-binding them together in ways that transcend species boundaries. Kira isn't just any human. She's the descendant of guardians, women who've protected supernatural communities for centuries. And Dante isn't just any wolf. He's her destined protector, the alpha her bloodline was meant to serve.

Their awakening connection triggers something deadly: her former mentor Marcus Voss, a corporate supernatural hunter with military resources and technology designed to capture and exploit every enhanced being in North America. Now Dante's scattered pack members are being hunted, supernatural families are fleeing their territories, and Kira must choose between the scientific career she's built and embracing abilities that could save an entire hidden world.

But Marcus isn't their only threat. As guardian powers awaken dormant supernatural abilities across the region, something ancient and malevolent stirs in response-forces that view their love as a cosmic disruption requiring elimination.

Some bonds are forged in blood. Others in destiny. Theirs will either save both their worlds... or destroy everything.