Phantom Pulse

Ronan Grey, alpha-born heir to the Shadowfang Pack, performs the sacred Rejection Rite to sever the moon-bound bond that ignited between him and vampire heir Soren Duvall during a border skirmish. But the rite backfires—instead of breaking cleanly, the bond frays into a phantom pulse that drags both men into shared nightmares of a centuries-old massacre. Hunted by their own kin for the dishonor of a botched rejection, Ronan and Soren are forced into a brittle, feral alliance. They follow the threads of their shared visions to a conspiracy at the heart of both the Glasspine Coven and the Shadowfang Council: their bond was never an accident. It was engineered by a cabal of wolves and vampires who orchestrate pack feuds to keep their hybrid bloodlines in covert power. As both clans mobilize for war, the heir who was meant to reject his mate must decide whether to break the cycle by claiming the vampire who already owns the remnants of his heart—or drag them both into the darkness their makers designed. The conspiracy is wounded but not dead, and in the shadows, the cabal regroups.