The Luna With No Wolf

Lena Hart was raised to know the exits. At twelve, her father made her recite them with her eyes shut; at twenty, she is the property of Alpha Gideon Grey at Blackwater, locked in a second-floor room, a woman with no wolf and no one left who knows her real name. She keeps a mental inventory of her injuries, a sewing box with a false bottom and a plan.

When Klaus Vale, the young Alpha of Cypress Hollow, defeats Grey in a challenge and takes Blackwater, Lena sees her one chance and drives her hidden knife into his shoulder.

By every law of the pack she is dead. Instead, Klaus does something nobody expects: he pauses the sentence, lets a doctor see her and starts, slowly and against the advice of everyone who loves him, to ask what was done to her. Klaus is a widower who buried his wife and stillborn daughter a year ago and has barely spoken since. Lena has never been asked a question she was allowed to answer.

As the Compact's old laws are used to bind her to him, as a bitter enemy hides inside the walls and as a long-buried truth about her birth begins to surface, they build something fragile out of agreements, boundaries and small acts of trust. Marriage, a school, a Charter that rewrites who can own whom, a lantern night and a family that had never stopped looking for her will test whether a girl who survived by counting can learn to stay.