A gothic romance novel, Vampires and Lycans rule and humans are subservient. check your TWs. This is a descriptive read and likely not for everybody. This book was again more of a slow burn, and almost gave you too many details, it could have been two books. Because of all the information the author was trying to give to us it felt jumpy and yet so much went unexplained. I don't like when authors introduce characters and they just kind of fade away as the story progresses. It felt like a forgotten storyline. In the beginning, these characters were super important to the story. You wanted us to believe that these three people were important enough for her to risk everything and go against a royal vampire to save and then she loses all concern for them? From getting out of the lab to being the bargaining tip during the guy's integration, last we know they are being held captive by the good guys, but they have taken their child away from them. He's being nurtured by another wolf, who we love, and then we don't hear about them through most of the story... Suddenly at the end, we hear, the wolf that was taking care of the child is now taking the parents under their protection. But, it just felt like there was so much more of that story to be told... But I loved it!