She was chosen to die. She wasn't told what she'd feel instead.
Every harvest moon, Northwood Manor claims a Bride Offering—and none have ever come home. Miriel Pickford knows she's a sacrifice the moment she arrives. What she doesn't expect is the portrait gallery hidden behind the manor walls: dozens of women with her exact face, her exact eyes, and one empty frame waiting with her name already engraved beneath it.
Or the ghost king who finds her first.
Gulli Northwood has been half-dead for a century, cursed since the night his mate was murdered, ruling through cruelty because feeling nothing is safer than feeling that loss again. He should hand Miriel over. Instead, for the first time in a hundred years, his heart begins to beat.
But someone inside the manor has spent centuries making sure Gulli never loves again—and she's not done. As Miriel digs for the truth behind the portraits, she uncovers a secret the pack has buried for two hundred years: the killer never left.
And this time, she's coming for the Final Bride herself.