As the adopted and weakest member of my pack, I’ve always been an outcast and mistreated, especially since I've never been able to shift into my animal form. Every time I try to find a way to escape my personal hell, my pack leader stops me, vowing that I'll never be free from him.

Everyone knows not to cross Gideon Disantollo, the dangerous alpha of the Silver Wolf Pack, and every witch knows not to enter his territory. But gambling at his bar is the only way I can raise enough money to pay my little sister’s tuition to the Academy of Witches—as long as I make sure I win. But I wasn’t expecting to get caught, especially by Disantollo himself. And I definitely wasn’t expecting to get bitten.

One momen, Ruby Grace is an ordinary girl enjoying a ski trip in the Adirondack Mountains and the next she’s running through the woods as a wolf. She wakes up the next morning, confused and alone, and traces her steps to the last place she was before blacking out—Connor Ward’s house. The mysterious, gorgeous guy with hypnotizing dark eyes who can’t seem to decide if he loves or hates her.

I cannot believe my bad luck when an embossed envelope arrives at my door just one week before my twenty-fifth birthday. Which just happens to be the cut-off date for being called up for the testing of the blood. I thought I was in the clear, turns out that I was wrong. I don’t know all the ins and outs of the whole dragon tribute selection process, only that it has something to do with a person’s DNA.

When Zayn, your smoking hot boss, tells you never to touch the cache of deluxe tattoo ink locked away in his office, you listen to him…until the day you run out of your own ink, your squirming client is on the verge of peeing his pants, and your boss is nowhere to be found. Desperate times call for desperate measures, right?