Soleil Orpheline has always known about the wolf she’s meant to spend her life with, but it’s a destiny she’s chosen to ignore. She prefers to live her life alone, fighting both real and personal demons on her own. She would have continued doing so if not for fate interfering…and causing Ilie Marcovici to find out about her. With the most powerful and manipulative wolf hell bent on claiming his heartkeeper, Soleil suddenly finds herself subject to the wickedest kind of courtship that’s marked by stolen touches, forbidden caresses, and the most intimate of kisses. Everyone knows that Ilie is ruthless in going after what he desires, but Soleil is determined to resist his advances. She will never yield to him if her body is all he wants.

Soleil Orpheline, society’s reigning belle by day and battle-hardened soldier by night, has given the wolf she’s meant to spend her life with an ultimatum. Fall in love with me, she tells the dangerous, powerful, and gorgeous Marquis of Lunare, if you want me to be your heartkeeper. But of course, this is easier said than done, especially for a seemingly heartless alpha like Ilie Marcovici. Unbeknownst to the wolf, it’s also a gamble that her life rests on the hinges of: Soleil is cursed, and it’s a ticking time bomb that only heartkeeping can save her from. Still, Soleil is determined to keep her secret. She’s vowed to herself never to chain a man to her side for all eternity - even if he were a half-demon like Ilie, whose seductive kisses and heated caresses threaten to make her forget her very name – without love. And so it begins, a race against time…with both hearts and lives at stake.