Garrick is a legendary ranger, a predator of the wilds who fears nothing — until he trespasses in the Gilded Wood. Seeking to poach a sacred silverhart, he instead wakes a force of nature far older and deadlier than any beast: Vespera, the High Queen of Aethelgard.
Captured and stripped of his weapons, his clothes, and his pride, Garrick is bound by a collar of pure moonlight. He is no longer a hunter; he is a pet to an immortal beauty who views his life as a fleeting season. Forced to kneel at her feet and scrubbed clean of his rough humanity, he must navigate a world of ancient magic and humiliating servitude.
But as Vespera breaks him down to rebuild him as her perfect guardian, a dark, forbidden heat ignites between mistress and slave. When offered the chance to escape the ravages of time at the cost of his eternal freedom, Garrick must make an impossible choice: remain a mortal man and die, or drink from the cup of eternity and belong to the Queen forever.
