A Wolf King she can never have... Leif Wolfheart: Tempted by a dark-skinned beauty he can't figure out, he struggles to put aside his own needs in order to save his people from continued slavery. A mysterious woman whose beauty is matched only by her treachery... Elsa Thorne: Caught between deadly politics and a man bent on claiming her, all she can afford to focus on is saving her children. At any cost. Betrayed... Captured, tortured, and maddened by pain, Leif vows revenge on the woman he would have made his queen. But will his hatred of what she was forced to do build a wall between them that can never be torn down?