Piper Delaine

"She came here to survive. She had no intention of being wanted." Thalia Ashen was born first — which in werewolf society should have secured her future as heir to the Ashen bloodline. Instead, she became its greatest shame. When her brother is murdered on the night of his selection, Thalia makes a desperate, reckless choice: impersonate him at Howling Spire Academy, the most brutal werewolf institution in existence. The kind of place where weakness gets you killed before breakfast. She is weak. She can barely shift. And she is hiding her identity as a woman inside an all-male academy. She should not have survived her first day. ✦ ✦ ✦ She certainly should not have been assigned to room with two of Howling Spire's most dangerous Alphas. Ragnar — gruff, ruthless, and her dead brother's sworn enemy — is the last person who should want to keep her secret. Caleb looks like an angel and carries shadows Thalia doesn't yet understand. When they discover her deception, they don't expose her. They offer her a deal, because they too have their own reasons for being at Howling Spire. But as Thalia's power begins to awaken in ways none of them expected, the stakes shift beneath her feet. She is not just an imposter surviving on borrowed time. She is connected to an ancient relic — one powerful enough to reshape the werewolf world, or tear it apart entirely. ✦ ✦ ✦ At Howling Spire, the secrets run as deep as the bloodlines. And the two dangerous Alphas who know exactly who she is? They might be the greatest threat she faces — or the only reason she makes it out alive.