Under a blood-red moon, Elara Voss collapses in a remote mountain forest in the Pacific Northwest, her finger scorched by a wedding ring. Three months earlier, her fiancé Adrian Hartwell and stepsister Selene Blackthorn orchestrated her betrayal, selling her to human traffickers during their engagement gala. After escaping a mountain compound, she stumbles into a secluded hot springs lodge shrouded in pine-scented mist. From the shadows emerges Cassian Drake, a reclusive ex-military operative with secrets darker than her own. Together, they unravel a web of corporate espionage and familial treachery while forging an alliance that blurs the line between vengeance and desire.