Peace between the packs is in jeopardy, a wicked man raises to power and threatens the balance of order. Isabella, a young artist and a former orphan seeks for her future, whichever it may be. But she isn't certain of what road to take, there was still something missing, nor does she know what is in her blood. All she is certain of, is that the forest calls to her. That somewhere in its expanse. She can finally find answers. The Northern pack, once closest friends and allies of the Easterners, seeks the truth of the mysterious death of the Eastern Alpha. Major, soldier and the third in command of the Northern Pack. Tasked to find the true chosen mate of Alpha Lawrence, and possibly the true heir of the pack. The trail was cold, but he was the best of the trackers in the four kingdoms. He will find them, he has to. The fates work in mysterious ways, he finds her in the most surprising circumstance. Just in the nick of time to save her life, and quite possibly loosing his heart in the process. But she was a human. ➳ ➳ ➳ -originally written the summer of 2014, and completed early 2018. He Who Holds the Crown © 2021, BellewithaJ | Mary Jobbele

- His gaze swept over the sea of faces below him, and grazed past me and then went back. I gasped. His eyes. So blue, so bright. The color of an iceberg. And then I was terrified. My brain couldn't understand the sudden feeling, couldn't even stop what my body did at the sudden onslaught of emotion that wasn't mine. I screamed. The ground swirled up into my vision and then everything went black. - I was your average scientist working at the facility. My name's Cecily by the way. But an encounter with the Facility's newest and so far biggest discovery changes everything, and then I'm suddenly tossed into the tangle which is the top of the pecking order in the Facility. Fun? Nuh uh. Trust me there's plenty more than 'pecking' going on up here...And then there's the new discovery, named Subject R.... Well hell. Gonna be a long ride...

Self-proclaimed weirdo April Hale and the notorious troublemaker Ryder Black have been living side by side for more than ten years. Both never attempted to communicate with each other, but on the night Ryder Black is thrown out by his own father, he asks her a question that might change both of their lives: "March, will you let me stay in your room?" He even got her name wrong. - A coming of age story about loss, the wonders of falling in love, and ultimately, pretending to be normal. Get inside April's distorted and yet humorous perspective, and watch as her tale unfolds into a shocking finish. COVER BY @RIVIIX