Maya Santos thought her eighteenth birthday would bring her everything she'd ever dreamed of—her fated mate, her place in the pack, her future as Luna. Instead, Alpha Jaxon Cruz destroys her world with four brutal words: “I reject you, Maya.”

Cast out like trash in front of the entire Shadowridge Pack, Maya's humiliation is complete. But rejection doesn't just break her heart—it awakens something ancient and terrifying inside her. Something that should have stayed buried.

Three months of living like a ghost in her own pack is enough. When her torment reaches a breaking point, Maya hits the road with nothing but her motorcycle and a thirst for revenge burning in her veins. Las Vegas's supernatural underground welcomes her with open arms, violence, and a half-vampire, half-werewolf hybrid named Dante Moreau who sees exactly what she's becoming.

A Fury Wolf. A weapon of mass destruction wrapped in the body of a broken girl.

As Maya trains under Dante's dark tutelage, she discovers her rejection wasn't random—it was orchestrated. Her entire life has been a lie, designed to create the perfect monster. Now ancient enemies are closing in, supernatural hunters want her power, and Jaxon has finally realized what he threw away.

But Maya isn't the same girl who begged for his acceptance. She's evolved into something deadlier, something that could either save the werewolf race or destroy it completely. And she's done being anyone's victim.

In a world where power is everything and trust is a luxury she can't afford, Maya must choose between the love that broke her and the darkness that remade her. Some rejections are blessings in disguise—even if they come wrapped in blood and fire.

Sometimes the only way to rise is to let everything burn.

Veseljka Cehtel