Red has a dangerous secret.

She's one of the Chosen, despised young women whose DNA is compatible with that of werewolves. Identified by a mark on their wrists, Chosen girls are taken to the capital in their late teens and gives as mates to the Sworn, the werewolf army who has conquered the human race. The Chosen bear the children that rare, barren female werewolves cannot.

And Red's been hiding her mark for years. So far, she's escaped detection.

But when Red reveals her secret to stop an execution, her fate is sealed. She will now become a mate to one of the enemy. A pawn in a bloodthirsty war where the humans always lose.

Bound for the distant capital city, Red is taken through the wilderness by Vixor Rae, a prince among the werewolves known as the Silver Wolf. Vixor is cruelly handsome, intelligent, and something about him draws Red in. But no matter how attractive she finds him, Vixor is her enemy, and Red cannot let herself forget it.

When zombified monsters attack the caravan, and only Red and Vixor survive, the werewolf prince and the rebel human must put aside their differences and trust each other to escape the perilous wilderness alive.