The Killing Moon

Fate is the thread which binds one life to another's. Its knots are tied too tightly for mortal hands to untie.

But we're no mere mortals.

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Gabrielle knows little of her own past before what she has now: a mundane life in a ramshackle cottage with a mother whose health is deteriorating and the feeling that something is... missing. Key pieces of herself, perhaps; without whatever it is she feels incomplete.

Then Léon staggers into things.

Bloodied, betrayed, hunted. He feels he can trust no one. Not even the kind young woman who saved him from the beasts who aim to overthrow him and take the crown he never wanted.

As Léon recovers with her aid, Gabrielle begins to see her own missing pieces. Léon is one of them - he's not some stranger who stumbled upon her by happenchance but an essential part of herself she's felt the absence of for years. A part of herself she will lose again if she cannot help him.

There's a coup in the works; Damien, Léon's half brother, thinks the throne and the pack should be in the hands of someone who wants the honour of them, not just accepts their burden.

Damien thinks what Léon has should be his. Including Gabrielle: Damien's mate.

And despite the inextricable, unexplained bond she and Léon share, Gabrielle has to admit that choosing Damien is the only logical choice. He has the support to take the throne by force whereas Léon's allies are dwindling; he can give her back the safety Léon destroyed by turning up at her doorstep; and most importantly, his healers claim they can save her mother, whose life hangs in the balance as Gabrielle finds herself at a crossroads between a fated mate bond and something she cannot name but feels far deeper.

With lives and possibly a kingdom in the balance, she must either pick a path or forge her own.

Damien or Léon?

She's been fighting against fate her whole life unknowingly. With different aspects of it pulling her in either direction, is there