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Turning fifteen is a death sentence in a city built on secrets.
For centuries, the ancient pact bound the spirits of apex predators to the bloodlines of select families. To the rest of the world, they are just ordinary teenagers trying to survive secondary school. But the moment the clock strikes their fifteenth birthday, the beast inside awakens.
Jax was supposed to inherit the crown. As the youngest son of the city's most powerful Lynx family, expectations are lethal. But while his brother Xander embraces his strength and his rival Damon effortlessly dominates the hierarchy, Jax's awakening is a disaster. Stuck at the lowest rank with unstable, flashing purple eyes and fractured abilities, he is branded a failure by his own father.
But Jax doesn't have the luxury of time to fix his broken powers.
Deep in the shadows of the city, a terrifying new threat is rising: the Bloodmorg-a ruthless, dark faction capable of bending the very blood in a shapeshifter's veins. With the traditional elder bloodlines refusing to break their ancient laws to fight back, the city is on the brink of a quiet massacre.
Defying his father and the rigid rules of the supernatural underworld, Jax and Xander do the unthinkable: they build an underground alliance of outcasts. Together with a cynical, rogue female Omega wolf, a reckless cheetah speedster, a defensive porcupine wildcard, and an extinct sabertooth powerhouse, they form The Leash.
Twelve teens. Twelve different beasts. One impossible mission.
To save his friends and police a city spiraling into chaos, Jax must survive the brutal hierarchy, protect his human identity, and find a way to unleash the legendary power hidden deep within his blood. Because if he fails, the predator will become the prey.