Love kills. Lust heals

Kyle, the Alpha of the Night Wind Wolf Pack, was stricken with a fatal curse. His wolf instinct guided him to find the Purifying Vessel—a being with a crescent moon birthmark on the back of their right shoulder—before his thirtieth birthday. A close encounter with this vessel could ease his pain, and intimate relations would lift the curse entirely. Yet, the vessel would perish from the backlash. Kyle had searched painstakingly for the Purifying Vessel for years, never imagining it would be a human. Resolved to break the curse, he took Edith, the Purifying Vessel, home with a domineering hand. Though he was meant to end her life, he found himself unconsciously growing attached. As the curse’s deadline approaches, the choice hangs heavy: should he die, or should she? How will William decide?