The Keeper's Guardian.

She was never meant to know the truth.

He was never meant to love her.

Their bond could unmake everything.

In modern-day Johannesburg, reclusive artist Layla Smith is haunted by dreams of a golden-eyed stranger—his gaze fire and fate, his presence a pulse beneath her skin with a voice like thunder and longing.

When she wakes up, his face vanishes, but the feeling lingers just beneath the surface. She's drawn to the impossible memory of someone she’s never met.

When her grandmother dies unexpectedly, Layla is called back to the Drakensberg Mountains—the place of her birth, and the gateway to a world she was forced to forget.

A world where magic is real. Where wolves walk as men.

And where a prophecy has waited for her.

What she thought was folklore soon proves to be truth.

Kaelen is a Guardian. A fierce werewolf bound by blood and vow to protect Layla from the moment she took her first breath.

Because of an ancient oath.

Because she is the last Keeper.

He’s also the man from her dreams.

And their connection is as dangerous as it is undeniable.

But Layla was hidden for a reason.

After her parents’ mysterious deaths, her grandmother—Keeper of the pack and guardian of their magic—erased every trace of Layla’s legacy and sent her away.

She hid Layla from the supernatural world, hoping to buy her time. To give her a chance at an ordinary life, even if only for a while.

It's been thirteen years of silence.

Thirteen years of forgetting.

But blood remembers.

Now, with the oath reawakening, enemies circling, and Kaelen back in her life, Layla is thrust into a prophecy older than memory—one that speaks of a girl born of both light and shadow, destined to make an impossible choice:

Break the bond between Keepers and wolves forever… or sacrifice her heart to save them all.

With ancient enemies rising, family secrets surfacing, and her power awakening, Layla must choose:

Will she embrace the legacy she was born to carry—or forge her own path, no matter the cost?

Because fate doesn’t care about rules.

And some choices can’t be undone.

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In the wild heart of South Africa, The Keeper’s Guardian is a sweeping tale of forbidden love, ancestral magic, and the choices that define who we are—and who we’re willing to become.