Hawk Huntersmoon, Duke of Rivenden-shape-shifter, predator, and the Queen's most loyal blade-has carried the Empire's most perilous secrets in the shadows of his heart. Feared by enemies, adored by his sovereign, he has lived his life as a devoted instrument of the crown... and a man bound by blood and duty rather than desire.
Lady Farallon Tirat has known only exile in silk. Cast aside by her noble kin and consigned to the austere Aegis Garnet, she has endured a lifetime of humiliation masked as discipline. Only Aurora Carreon, Lady of Grayslake, has ever offered her refuge or friendship. Farallon has learned to survive with grace-yet beneath her gentility burns a power she was never meant to awaken.
When a treacherous rescue mission plunges Hawk and Farallon deep into enemy wilderness, the fragile distance between them shatters. Ambush. Blood. Moonlit desperation. And a wound that drags the mighty Duke to the edge of death.
Now hunted by foes and haunted by the rising hunger of Hawk's shifting nature, Farallon must carry him across cursed forests and forbidden passes to reach Rivenden alive. But danger is not only the blade at their backs-
it is the fierce, forbidden pull between a woman who has never been claimed...
and a man who has spent his life mastering the beast inside him.
Under the shadow of the Hunter's Moon, loyalty blurs into longing, secrets ignite into desire, and survival may demand a surrender deeper than either of them ever dared imagine.