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As heir to the Sterling pack, Estella was raised to understand the rules. Rules about pack alliances, succession, and who heirs are meant to choose. As a child, she didn’t question them. She followed her instincts—especially in the woods with another alliance heir, Christopher Bahng, where laughter felt easy and choices felt like her own.
Then the Bahngs left.
In the years that followed, the council insisted her connection with Thomas Hawthorne would strengthen with time and patience. They argued it was necessary for alliance stability as other packs began to disappear.
For eleven years, she has tried to believe them.
Now, with pressure mounting and alliances tightening around her, Estella must decide whether the council is truly offering safety and whether what she felt as a child was ever meant to fade.
When danger forces her and her cousin’s guard into the no man’s land between territories—and into the path of a rogue pack led by an alpha who calls himself Bangchan—Estella is confronted with a familiarity she can’t explain. Will she choose not to just follow her instincts—but to trust them again?