It has been 12 years since the Lycan emerged from the shadows and conquered the world. Today, North America is divided into two dozen Territories overseen by the Centrality, and the humans within those Territories live in poverty and fear. Despite a difficult upbringing in the poorest Burrow in one of the harshest Territories, Noa Bordeaux has worked hard and secured a position at one of the few operating universities left in North America in hopes that she'll be able to one day help rebuild her home. Her plans are completely derailed, however, when she learns that her worst fears have come true. She's mated to a monster. Desperate to avoid a fate she deems to be worse than death, she runs with the help of her childhood best friend and the human Resistance. But fate won't let her escape that easily...

When the werewolves won the Great War, Lila was in her teens. Old enough to know what the world was like before the beasts took over. She watched the society she once knew crumble, moulding into the beast's world, their hierarchy overturning all modern governments. Despite being human, when Lila saw him for the first time on television, she just knew. She knew that the Great Alpha was her mate, and that she would do anything in her power to keep them from meeting for the first time.