Captured. Chained. Bound to a stranger he can’t ignore.
When bear shifter Ronan Valmont wakes in Ironhold Prison, silver cuffs bite his wrists and a wolf’s scent burns through his blood. His cellmate, Kaelen Dros, was born to lead—and built to fight. But the Directorate has other force-bond shifters, turn them into weapons, and make them bleed for an audience that pays to watch monsters tear each other apart.
The bond between them should never have happened. Bears don’t mate wolves. Not like this. Not under chains. Yet every heartbeat drags them closer—to hunger, to heat, to a love that could burn their world down.
Together they’ll fight the arena, the system, and the people who believe freedom can be bought with silver. And when the blood moon rises, the chain that binds them may become the key that sets them free.
A dark, emotional, and fiercely sensual M/M shifter romance about captivity, consent, and the kind of bond that can start a revolution.
forced proximity fated mates bonded enemies-to-lovers brutal heat freedom through fire
(Standalone in the Wild Hearts / Shattered Chains universe)