The world did not wait.Within two days of their return to Blackpine, the whispers had spread like wildfire. That a child—young, golden-eyed, and wrapped in prophecy—had been found in the ancient Temple of First Howls. That his blood burned with something older than the oaths that held pack law together.

And most damning of all:

That Alpha Diana, the Masked Alpha of the Twilight Pack, and the Luna of Alpha Troy of the Blackpine Pack, was harboring him.

Daisy stood atop the eastern ...