Luna Ashveil has spent her life hidden. Born to the Alpha King but never able to shift, she shows up at Crimson Academy under a fake name — Luna Grey, unranked, wolfless. In a place where rank is everything and the weak get discarded, she plans to survive by staying invisible.Then Caius Varn walks into the entrance hall. The mate pull hits them both. He rejects her in front of everyone. “I won’t carry a wolfless mate.”The rejection should have ended it. Instead, it cracks something open. Her body starts changing. Marks surface. Stone cracks under her hands. In the sealed vaults, she finds the truth her bloodline buried — she carries a celestial beast older than the Lycan kings, a power they once hunted to extinction. The rejection was the trigger that woke it.The bond won’t die. Caius can’t look away. Enemies circle. Old seals break. The more Luna learns about the woman whose essence she carries, the clearer it gets that the academy, the courts, and the heir who rejected her are all standing on the edge of something that won’t go back to sleep.She wasn’t sent to Crimson Academy to survive it. She was meant to change it.