In her previous life, the healer Elena exhausted her strength helping Kane claim the throne as Wolf King. In return, she got an execution order for her fiancé, betrayal by her foster sister, and a stake-burning meant to consume every last word of defense.
When she opened her eyes again, she was back at the Moon Oath Ceremony that would decide her fate.
As Kane reached out to her, Elena rejected him in front of everyone and chose his older brother instead: Theo, a crippled werewolf accused of patricide and betraying his clan, poisoned by silver and due to be executed in three days.
Everyone thought she'd gone mad, and even Theo suspected she had an ulterior motive. But Elena used a forgotten old law to secure sixty-one hours for them to appeal the verdict.
To survive, they had no choice but to enter into a temporary alliance that either of them could dissolve.
Yet as the medicine from the North Tower, the silver mine ledgers, and the former Wolf King's old case gradually came together, Elena discovered that Theo's execution, her own death by fire in her previous life, and the silver poisoning spreading across the northern border all pointed to an ancient conspiracy lurking behind the throne.
This time, she would not only rewrite both their fates. She would build a world that no longer depended on sacrificing one person to keep it going.
