The unclaimed moonUpdated at Sep 1, 2026, 05:16
Nineteen years a Luna, and Wren Ashgrove thought her fate had already been decided beneath a claiming moon in her youth. She was wrong.Three weeks after her mate, Alpha Kestrel Ashgrove, sent a second mate at a diplomatic summit, the Elders declared it Goddess-ordained and set a date to seal the match before the whole pack. Wren is told nothing changes. She watches everything change anyway, her council seat, her duties, her evenings, quietly reassigned to a golden-haired stranger named Ophelia Vale, daughter of a neighbouring Alpha hungry for more territory than his own.But a healer knows the scent of a lie as surely as she knows the scent of infection, and Wren finds proof that Ophelia's "fate" was mixed in a bottle days before it ever reached Kestrel's nose. Somewhere in the dark trees at the edge of her territory, an unfamiliar wolf is watching her, one who may hold the key to unravelling exactly what Ophelia and her father are really after, and exactly what they're willing to burn down to get it.With eleven days until the Gathering seals a false bond forever, Wren has to decide whether to go quietly, the way a good Luna is supposed to, or pick up the sword she buried half a lifetime ago and fight for a pack, a title, and a truth that no one else is willing to look at too closely.She was never given a choice the first time. This time, she's taking one.