Abigail Phillips
Fourteen years ago, two lives shattered. One found peace and a new home. The other was left behind, finding only solitude in a cold, silent forest.
The broken soul in the woods shouldn't be alive. His body had only ever known the sting of a whip; he had no memory of a time when someone had touched him with kindness. He died the day he threw himself hundreds of feet over a cliff, choosing the rocks over Jack's brutal torture. He chose death knowing he'd never experience love. But the Goddess had other plans.
He woke at the bottom of those jagged rocks with no explanation, left with only the phantom memory of roaring flames, hotter than the sun.
Keith found him and showed him what a gentle touch was. He showed him love, pulling him into the light, only for it to be brutally ripped away.
Exiled by their Alpha, Keith was forced to leave him behind, burying his feelings for over a decade just to survive the agony of the love he was forced to leave behind.
But they aren't the only ones fighting a losing battle against their own hearts. All around them, love feels like a quiet curse. Jason is drowning in resentment toward an impossible, fated mate; Derek is suffocating in silent pining for Fletcher while his own stubborn fears keep his heart locked tight; and a lonely Omega is left shattered in Alex's wake.
A frozen heart must learn to face the past. But as old wounds rip open, a terrifying question hangs in the shadows: Will the monster from the past let the dead boy rest in peace, or will he refuse to accept his death?
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