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In a world where werewolves are born from ancient lunar codes embedded in their DNA, every pack is tethered to a specific moon. There are four known moons-each representing a bloodline, each ruled by an Alpha chosen by fate. But the Fifth Moon? It's a myth. A celestial anomaly. A forbidden code buried in the bones of the cosmos. When Kael Veyron, the fierce Alpha of the Crimson Howl Pack, begins to suffer from unexplainable seizures during full moons, the Elders fear he's been cursed. But when he meets Lyra Aerion, a mute, silver-eyed girl with no pack, no past, and a scent that doesn't belong to this world-he realizes his "curse" is an awakening. Lyra is not just a Luna. She's the last surviving descendant of the extinct Fifth Moon bloodline-a genetic key to the "Final Shift," a transformation so powerful it could unify or destroy all werewolf clans forever. As Kael and Lyra's bond grows, they unravel truths that shake the origin of werewolves itself-truths buried by gods, hunted by monsters, and stained by betrayal. They must defy ancient laws, rebel against the Moon Elders, and survive an apocalyptic prophecy that says one must die... for the other to ascend.
Chapter 1 The Howl Between Worlds
The moon didn't rise that night.
It hovered-bloodless, breathless, like it too was afraid of what was coming.
Alpha Kael Veyron stood at the cliff's edge, his boots dug into the frost-covered rock, his chest bare beneath a storm-churned sky. Wind snapped through the trees below like the warning growls of the earth itself. His pack was asleep. His body was calm.
But his soul? Screaming.
For the third month in a row, on the night of the full moon, Kael didn't shift.
He fractured.
Bones trembled, skin shimmered with a silver glow, and his mind was assaulted by visions he couldn't explain-visions of a woman with stars in her eyes and a voice made of silence. Always the same woman. Always staring back like she knew him.
Then came the final blow: a flash of a fifth moon, distant and wrong, suspended in a part of the sky no astronomer dared name.
Kael gritted his teeth. "You're not real," he growled to no one. "You don't exist."
"Then why do you smell me?" came a voice from behind-soft, feminine, devastating.
He spun, claws out, but stopped cold.
She stood there barefoot, pale as snow, with hair the color of dying starlight and eyes that shimmered like frozen mercury. No heartbeat. No scent. And yet her presence struck him with the force of a thousand alphas. She wore a simple tattered cloak, soaked from rain, but she held herself like royalty.
"You're not from any pack," he said, low and dangerous. "Who sent you?"
She tilted her head, unblinking. Didn't speak.
Kael's wolf pushed against his skin, agitated. Mate? No. That couldn't be. He didn't believe in fate. Not anymore.
"Say something," he demanded. "Anything."
She raised her hand instead-and pointed at the sky.
Kael followed her finger... and saw it.
Not one moon.
Two.
One was the moon he'd known all his life-bright and full. The other... was cracked. Dim. Bleeding light in pulsing waves. A forgotten celestial body, barely holding together, as if reality itself had tried to erase it.
Kael's knees buckled.
"You are real," he whispered.
The girl stepped forward and touched his chest-right over the place his heart should be. His pulse synced with hers instantly, without rhythm, wild and chaotic, like two creatures pulled from opposite galaxies colliding.
Then she leaned in. Her lips didn't move. But a voice, old as time, filled his head like thunder beneath water:
I am Lyra. Luna of the Fifth Moon. I came for you, Alpha.
Before the world ends... we must remember who we were.
Kael stared into her starlit eyes and knew one thing with terrifying clarity.
This was not the beginning of a love story.
It was the start of a war.
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