JACKSON “JAX” BAPTISTE has always felt different—too sharp, too aware, too alive beneath the skin. The truth finds him in the form of Julien, a magnetic stranger who reveals what the old Cajun tales distorted: Jax is Rougarou, born of a bloodline meant to be hidden.
In the cathedral-turned-nightclub of Elysium and its sin-soaked underbelly, Inferno, desire turns dangerous. One night of forbidden passion leaves Julien imprinted on Jax—bonded, claimed, and marked by a truth Julien never fully shared.
Trying to outrun the connection, Jax buries himself in strangers… unaware he’s imprinting every one of them in return. Until he meets Bastien—devastating, grounding, irresistible. But Bastien carries a lineage far deadlier than Jax realizes: the blood of the hunters who once slaughtered his kind… starting with Jax’s father.
In New Orleans, some monsters aren’t myth—and some myths aren’t monsters.