“The Hunter's Prey”
In a world where an ancient mist draws both hunters and their prey into its hidden depths, John is a masterful monster slayer who stalks the forest beneath rain and pale moonlight, exterminating werewolves without hesitation. During his latest hunt, he annihilates a pack’s alpha and its followers but discovers a young shapeshifter—Seraphina—gravely wounded and teetering on the brink of death. Rather than surrender to hatred and finish her off, John carries her unconscious body back to the one place he calls home: a rustic cabin at the edge of a shadowy clearing.
There, shackled by chains forged of silver and steel, Seraphina awakens with her senses still dulled by pain and an interrupted transformation. Though John demands information about the rest of her kind, her fierce resistance—mixed with his own bitterness—creates an almost unbearable tension. As he tends to her wounds—a gesture that contradicts everything he has ever believed to be right—a profound inner conflict arises: she is the chained beast seeking vengeance, and he is the hunter torn between his duty to destroy monsters and a dark curiosity that slowly threatens to unravel his resolve.
Caught in a deadly game of hatred, survival, and forbidden attraction, John and Seraphina will discover that neither the line between human and beast nor the boundary between hunter and savior is as clear as they once believed.