Rot has penetrated from the roots to the highest branches of Blood Moon coven. Crow and her Nomads were prepared for a fight after their encounter with Trillium Moon at Deadwood. They are not prepared for what they find at Mother House in Huntsville, Alabama… Lash was the backbone of Nomad Chapter until Puck’s betrayal–now, he exists as a self-imposed outcast, rubbing everyone the wrong way and drowning in his misery. Better to keep their distance after his momentous failure to protect his people. When Lash stumbles across his fated mate–his true, Goddess-given mate–at Mother House, he is unprepared for the fear and anger he feels. There is no way he can claim Ajax. If his mate does not betray him, then Lash will get him killed. It’s too big a risk. Ajax is a Club Brat–a human working for the MC–with a gift. Existing on the fringes of the club, he has found where he feels like he belongs. But one look at Lash, and everything he thought he knew starts to come crumbling down. Normies don’t get fated mates, after all. With the feeling of magic innate in his bones, and Club Brats disappearing, Ajax is pulled between the mating bond he feels deep in his soul, and the helplessness he feels to contribute as anything but a liability and a distraction. The Goddess has bigger plans for the VP of the Nomads and his mate than fear. Lines have been crossed, and the divide between witches and normies is disintegrating. The fight with Trillium Moon has already begun to spill into the human world–and She has declared that love will rule the day. Will Lash and Ajax heed the siren’s call and come together in the way the Goddess intended? Or will fear win out over fate in the face of an enemy older than time?