She thought she was just a practical woman who knew how to stitch up broken things. For years, she lived a quiet life, hiding behind the clinical precision of her medical work, ignoring the strange, warm hum that occasionally pulsed beneath her skin. But when a massive, critically injured stranger collapses at her back door in the dead of night, her quiet existence shatters.He is a lethal alpha shifter, poisoned by silver and hunted by a ruthless, high-tech syndicate. To save him, she must extract the metal poisoning his blood. But the moment her hands touch his wounds, a dormant power explodes within her. The warmth she always dismissed as stress begins to crawl up her arms, sparking a faint light that marks her as the last survivor of an extinct lineage-a legendary class of healers capable of anchoring a shifter's soul and making an alpha's power unbreakable.Now, the hunters who wiped out her family are closing in. They don't just want him; they want her. As the relentless predators circle her small sanctuary, she is forced to confront the dark secrets of her mother's past and a fated bond that grows stronger with every touch.Together, the wounded leader and the hidden healer must survive a sophisticated manhunt, navigating a dangerous web of betrayal, family secrets, and an ancient magic that demands her complete surrender. She has spent her whole life running from fear, but to survive the night, she will have to embrace the dangerous heat of a bond she was never meant to escape.
