The basement was cold, damp and dark, the only light source coming from a dying candle on the wall. The kind of place unfit for any living creature to reside.
And yet these cold stones had been the home of a girl for nearly eighteen years.
Aurora was an orphan of a destroyed pack, the previous Easthaven Alpha finding her amongst the ruins after his war had been won. He brought her back to be raised as a slave, the entire pack punishing her out of a deep hatred they held for her family. It was only later discovered in the book that her birth family’s pack was of some old lineage, people once capable of wielding magic. Over the many ages, the craft had been forgotten, and her pack’s original status was diminished. The Alpha of Easthaven took advantage of that fact and started a war to stea
