I didn't believe in monsters-until one took me." Erin's life shattered in a second. One moment, she was in the car with her boyfriend, dreaming about college and the future. The next, he was dead -and she was being caged. He called himself Alpha Kael. He said she was his mate. But instead of warmth, she found chains. Instead of love, she found rejection. He didn't want a human Luna. And he made sure she knew it. Tortured. Caged. Stripped of her old life, Erin is trapped in a world of howling beasts and brutal laws. But as her pain turns into fury, something begins to awaken inside her-something even the Alpha didn't see coming. She may have been claimed. She may have been broken. But she is not his to destroy. Not anymore. "You rejected me, Alpha. Now watch me rise."

Emmy's life is going just as she'd planned: She's living in her own apartment, dancing every day and is just leaps away from being named her company's next Prima ballerina. And she's only 17. But all of Emmy's plans come to a screeching halt when the FBI shows up at her door to let her know that she's being stalked by a serial killer. Suddenly, the safe, insulated world she created for herself is riddled with violence, fear...and a growing pile of dead bodies. At first Emmy wants nothing more than to forget her chilling new reality - but her admirer isn't finished with her yet, and before she knows it, Emmy's stuck in a nightmare she can't dance her way out of. Content and/or trigger warning: This story contains detailed scenes of murder, rape, torture, sex and stalking, which may be triggering for some readers. [[word count: 80,000-90,000 words]]