As the old man lay dying from his stab wound, he grabbed ahold of her sleeve and insistently whispered: "The eagle... the eagle..." she saw some sort of light in his eyes slowly extinguish, and she realized that he was no longer alive. Ruth glanced around the room to see what he could have been talking about. If there was once an eagle inside, it was long gone...
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In her youth, Ruth Scarlett tasted the sour blood of a forsaken wolf and it forever changed her. She is bound by the moon, and the earth, and the curse of the werewolf. But her mentor, Elias Greenwich, claims to have found a cure to break the cycle and free her, until, in a dreary midnight fog, his genius was lost with the pierce of a blade. She spends years searching for the "Eagle" as she crosses paths with walkers and wolves alike, building an immortal future from a shaky past.
There are two species of werewolf: the forsaken wolves are woven into the cycle, like a tumor that is stuck into an ecosystem but does no good. They are immortals who continue their cycle by passing the curse like a disease to a new host.
Then, there are the pure bloods who are born of two other pure bloods and they live and take place in the ecosystem as nature intended; through the journey of evolution. They do not mind when the heartless, parasitic 'forsaken' are being chopped off one by one, until something starts killing pure bloods also.
It is a fight of wolves, for wolves, and for the future prosperity of the cycles of nature.
It is for life, love, and luna.
Helena works in the shadow of her mate for years, hiding her identity from the Alpha who frantically searches for her. When Alpha Octavius discovers that his timid maid is the mate he had been looking for, all hell breaks loose.