They say the wolves protect us. From what, no one can say. And no one dares to ask.Aliya Renalds, freshly eighteen, has always stayed in the background. She is shy, quiet, bookish, and haunted by a tragedy that forced her out of her old life. When she transfers to the elite Grayson High for her final year, all she wants is to graduate in peace and forget the past. But the town she’s lived in her whole life suddenly feels unfamiliar. The students are strange. The rules are unspoken. And then there’s Micah.Older. Mysterious. Intense. And impossibly drawn to her.Micah is everything Aliya should avoid and not just because he sees through her carefully built walls. He’s part of something ancient, powerful, and bound by laws that humans were never meant to understand. Aliya doesn’t know why he looks at her like that, why the air thickens when he’s near, or why she can’t stop dreaming about him. All she knows is: he’s dangerous.But Micah isn’t like the others and for some reason, she’s the only one he can’t ignore.As secrets start to surface and the town’s polished surface begins to crack, Aliya must decide how far she’s willing to go to learn the truth.And whether loving Micah is worth breaking the rules that keep them both safe.