Almost two weeks had gone by since Carter Polver lost the Blood Challenge to his fifth-born son, Russel. It’s also been almost two weeks since Lola had, somehow, managed to fight and kill a werewolf woman from the kingdom of Harvenk named Nora. The shock of what she’d done, coupled with the immense trauma she’d been through, caused a severe reaction to her mental state. Unresponsive for the most part, she spent the next several days in her room pretty much alone, taking food and drink ...