Ayla, widowed for three months, received a letter from a dead man: five hundred gold coins, plus two bodyguards—the deadliest shifters in the North, sworn to protect Ayla until the very end. Then the dead husband came back. Karl kicked open the farmhouse door, demanding Ayla back. Two bodyguards had already been fighting every night to warm Ayla's bed. And tonight, under the moonlight, no one plans to let the dead husband walk out alive.
