A wolf pack cannot become a clawhold without an alpha.

The alpha was the strongest of the pack: their leader, their ruler and their king.

Also, Aria hated alphas.

The last time she had met one was also the last day she met her father.

It was on the celebration of her fifteenth solar cycle, her birthday, a day that she had planned to celebrate with her entire family.

It was the day her life changed.

The day that the pack elders proclaimed her a Stillblood.

Her father, the ...