KAEL

The months between the tribunal and the birth were the quietest of my life, and I mean that

as the highest compliment I know how to give.

The pack settled. Not dramatically, not with a single moment of resolution, but in the slow,

organic way that communities heal when the source of poison has been removed and the

truth has been allowed to circulate. Wolves who’d been uncertain about Sera now deferred

to her with genuine respect. The female warrior unit she’d built had become a ...