Ash and Moonlight
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Fifty years after the world fell to the Lunar Scourge, only the strongest survived, wolves born from plague and moonfire.
Humans became myths whispered around campfires.
Until one walks into the wolves' dominion.
Lyra Hale knows better than to trust anyone.
Hunted, cunning, and alone, she scavenges through the ruins to save the last person she loves. But when she's caught during the werewolves' sacred Hunt, she's dragged before their heir, an Alpha raised to rule through dominance and blood.
Kael Varyn was forged by violence, trained to lead a kingdom that worships power.
Taking a human as his prize should have been simple.
But the woman who defies him carries a secret older than the Scourge itself, a pulse of moonlight in her veins.
As the pack's rituals turn to war and ancient creatures stir in the shadows, Lyra and Kael are bound by forces neither understands.
She must hide what she is.
He must decide what kind of ruler he will become.
Enemies by fate.
Allies by necessity.
And somewhere between the ashes and the moonlight, a bond powerful enough to end, or remake-the world.
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