In Willowbank, Alaska, some secrets stay buried in snow; others claw their way out. Ruby Evans should have died out on that frozen lake. Instead, she wakes with no memory of the attack-just blood on the ice and questions no one wants to answer. Her only leads lie in two strangers with secrets of their own: Grayson, the brooding, Viking-eyed drifter, locked in the town station's single cell, and Thayne, the hulking recluse, hidden away in a compound at the edge of the forest. As Ruby searches for the truth, she's pulled into a hidden world lurking beneath her own-a world of fangs, fur, and blood. The deeper she digs, the more the line between salvation and damnation begins to blur. When long-buried secrets are finally revealed, it won't just shatter everything she thought she knew; it'll awaken the monster she was never meant to forget.