“To save the pack, my fated Alpha, Loren Vale, had sacrificed the wolf inside me with his own hands. He had promised to make me Luna. But when the Council of Elders branded me a curse, he had only said one thing. "Follow the rules," Loren said. I, Elena Whitmore, was offered up as a trophy to the most brutal Lycan King of Northreach. On the night of the full moon, he turned into a beast, his power spiraling out of control. Everyone else ran. Only I walked against the tide, closing the distance between us step by step. They were all waiting to see how I would die. But the moment I touched him, silver light erupted. The frenzy began to subside, and something ancient in the blood awakened.”