**The Season Series Prequel (#0.5)** Isabelle de Haviland is hopelessly in love with Prince Leopold of Germania. Fortunately for her, the dashing foreign prince is her betrothed, thanks to a decade-old marriage treaty signed by her father, the Duke of Kentshire. But Kentshire is a rich and bountiful duchy, with Isabelle as its sole heiress. Whomever she marries will inherit her father's lands, which sit on the hotly contested border between Germania and Pretania. Refusing to be outwitted by his own duke, the King of Pretania summons Isabelle to Highcastle Palace as a debutante for his son, Graham, the temperamental crown prince. Determined to remain loyal to her husband-to-be, Isabelle is forced to navigate the tricky waters of the royal court all while keeping the meddlesome prince at an arm's length. But all is fair in love and war and Prince Graham is not one to lose at either...

Mira has always been trapped in the curse of her birthright. As a half-breed, she doesn't belong, forced to into hiding from humans and shifters alike. For all her life, she's been traipsing the danger with her father at her side; together, finding comfort in each other, even at the toughest of times. Two against the rest, their bond unbreakable. Until the hunters caught them. Until the hunters take everything she knows away from her. Forced to flee, she bears the burden of her father's sacrifice on her shoulders. Mira must follow the last promise she made to him: protecting herself at all costs. For the first-time in twenty-three years, she find herself running towards the danger; to a pack who could persecute her for exisiting. For the first time-when living with secrets is all she knows-she finds herself wanting to trust in others for protection. For the first time, she is willing to risk it all to find the family she never had.