INTO THE SHADOWLAND Months have gone by since that battle that took so much, yet sometimes it feels like it was yesterday. The Freedom Pack is rebuilding, the houses are being rebuilt, the new borders set up and patrols organized on the off chance any threat would arise. On the surface, we move forward, but beneath the glass, the burden of our losses weighs down. Our hearts are torn by the absence of my mother Serafine and my brother David, who sacrificed himself to weaken Lucian's power. No matter where I turn, there is something to remind me of what we've lost. The pack members all smile, but the hollowness is just there, behind their eyes, like they're as haunted by ghosts the same as I am. The world we knew has changed, and even though we won the war, it doesn't feel like vic

