Every year, a beautiful masquerade ball is held for every pack in the world that is not for rogues or Lone wolves. It is a secret to all humans and only Alphas and teens at the age of seventeen who are looking for their mates can go. All look forward to finding their one true love and living happily ever after. Well... almost everyone. Carter Sparks is not like every other girl. She doesn't hope to find true love or a mate, she doesn't wish on shooting stars or cross her fingers and pray for the best. Because with the hard life of pain she had went through, she knows there is no such thing as a happy ending anymore. She's lost, broken, extremely shy and worst of all? Mute. But when she goes to the ball, forced by her father, and finds that she actually does have a mate, everything changes. A broken girl with a dark past. A boy looking to save her. But now, the past is coming back and nothing will be the same. And the masquerade... is just beginning.