Mary Hartwood is a woman of two souls, one human, one wolf. Born into a hidden world of werewolves, she has lived by the law of the pack, trusting no outsiders, especially not humans. But when her pack is caught in the crossfire of a brutal Civil War skirmish, Mary is the only one left alive. Wounded and on the brink of death, she collapses deep in the borderlands between Kentucky and Virginia… and is saved by the unlikeliest of people. Margaret Thompson is a quiet, compassionate healer with secrets of her own, a woman hiding her heart's desires in a world that wouldn't understand them. When she finds Mary, battered and bleeding, she doesn't hesitate to bring her home and tend her wounds, even as suspicion and danger simmer around them. As Mary heals, she begins to see the war not through the eyes of a predator, but through Margaret's, in the quiet resilience of the townspeople, in the courage of a woman who dares to care for others, and in the tenderness that blooms between them. Against all odds, trust takes root. And from trust… something deeper begins to grow. But the war is drawing closer, and so is the truth Mary has kept hidden. When an act of heroism forces her to reveal her monstrous form, everything they've built teeters on the edge of ruin. Hunted, hated, and forced to flee, Mary must choose: run from what she is, or fight for the love she never expected to find. Can two women, bound by secrets and scarred by war, defy the world that seeks to tear them apart?