Rejected at 18, Claimed by the Crown

Avery Brooks was seven when her parents died on a mountain road. She has been told it was a deer. On the night of her eighteenth birthday, minutes after the boy she has waited for her whole life breaks her heart, something white and gold wakes inside her, and nothing she has been told is true.

A rare Nova wolf has not been born in a century. The pack that raised her wants her silenced, a powerful man with a seat on the Boundary Commission wants her found, and the uncle everyone buried years ago is very much alive.

To survive she must go where the secrets are kept: the Academy, where the Crown Prince Mason Callahan, dark-blond, scarred, and sworn to duty, becomes the only person who can hold her steady and the one she cannot afford to want.

Between the Council's hearing room, a dragon court of its own, and a trail of stolen artifacts leading back to her own family, Avery learns what her parents died protecting. She must choose between the safety of a quiet life and the fierce, dangerous love of a man who will stand beside her when the whole world stands against her.