My ruin is the city’s biggest break in the code.

Exiled from my own pack, I carry the artifact every wolf wants—and every vampire fears. I fall straight into Zephyr Nightfall’s arms: a billionaire banker colder than winter steel, his fangs sharper than a contract clause.

Two monsters. One asset.

The artifact fuses us—soul-bound in fire and ice—with every heartbeat redlining the city’s power. Daxios, the demon broker of soul-debt, hunts us through shadows and blood. Zephyr protects me with iron walls and a forbidden taste, but every faction in Enoch City wants to rule my ruin.

Magic cuffs us together. Lust snaps the chain. The manor’s gates open to ghosts and ancestral secrets, our bond igniting in the dark to mark us with proof and promise.

Blood trades. Soul liens. Love sharpened to a knife’s edge.

When the Demon Realm swallows me whole, Zephyr gives up decades of his life to cross the veil and drag me back by the heartstrings. The city reboots. The old debts turn to ash. The only thing left is the pulse between us—the keystone he can never own, but swore to guard.

We survived the purge. Now the Sanctuary waits for the heir with fangs and fur, destined to rewrite Enoch’s bloodlines.

One heartbeat. One secret. One new world.

TROPES:

• Billionaire Vampire Banker

• Exiled Wolf Auditor

• Forced Proximity

• Magical Soul-Binding

• Enemies to Lovers

• Sacrifice and Grand Gesture

• Surprise Pregnancy

• Morally Grey Alliances

• Ancient Sanctuary

• Forbidden Love