University of Chicago student Avery Quinn lost consciousness after leaving a bar on her 20th birthday, and woke up to find herself locked in a windowless white cell. Mateo Vega, the stranger sharing her bed, bore a black wolf tattoo and could pin her body down with a single command. Even more terrifying, he was no kidnapper, but the alpha heir of the werewolves who had been secretly imprisoned for two years. The cell belonged to Helix Domain, a biotech giant. The company had long been imprisoning werewolves under the guise of "treating emotional disorders", and using human genes to create synthetic commands capable of controlling wolf packs. Avery, originally just an ordinary girl taken by mistake, was identified by lead scientist Evelyn Voss as the rarest "silent carrier" due to her abnormal reaction to alpha commands. To escape, Avery was forced to cooperate with Mateo, who distrusted humans. The two went from being on guard against each other to saving each other's lives, and after fleeing the laboratory, they were drawn into a larger power struggle within the wolf pack: Mateo's cousin Cassian had already declared him dead, and seized the alpha position through a fake pregnancy heir, company funds, and the old laws of the pack; Avery's father, a state senator, was one of Helix's earliest investors.
