Lucian Thorne is the most feared executioner in the Obsidian Pack.

A rare Prime Omega immune to Alpha command, he has spent years serving the tyrant who raised him into a weapon. Lucian obeys, kills, and never allows anyone close enough to discover the truth beneath his gloves.

Until he is ordered to execute Gideon Sterling.

Gideon is the captured Alpha warlord who led the northern rebellion against High Alpha Silas Vane. Chained before a bloodthirsty crowd, he expects Lucian's blade to end his life.

Instead, the moment steel touches his throat, a violent mate bond ignites between them.

Lucian should finish the execution.

Instead, he fakes Gideon's death and smuggles him beneath the palace.

But Gideon wakes before Lucian can secure him.

Wounded, furious, and unwilling to submit, the rebel Alpha refuses to become the executioner's secret prisoner. Gideon does not trust Lucian, and Lucian refuses to accept that an unwanted bond gives the Alpha any claim over him.

Yet every shared scent weakens Lucian's control.

Every palace inspection brings them closer to discovery.

And the tyrant who shaped Lucian into his perfect weapon is beginning to realise that his executioner has betrayed him.

To survive, Lucian and Gideon must turn captivity into an alliance, desire into a weapon, and a forbidden mate bond into the spark of a revolution.

But if Silas discovers Gideon is alive, he will not simply kill the rebel Alpha.

He will use Gideon to force his untouchable Omega executioner to kneel.