I spend the day in the garden, soaking up the sunlight and memorizing the list. Ambrose has laid out the names perfectly with their titles next to each name. His ‘pack’ and the nobles overlap, many of them supposed shifters. There are only a few nobles living at the palace that are human but they seem to be traveling through and not in the king’s close circle.

The ball tonight was specifically for them, and although the list didn’t feel long, I knew there were at least ...