Beyond the Boundaries
When her village is destroyed by corrupted magic, she’s offered protection under one condition: marry Lucan Rhyst , the cold, enigmatic Alpha of the Emberfall Pack.
Alina, is an orphaned healer with dormant magical blood. She is forced to marry the cold and ruthless Alpha of the Emberfall Pack and everything within her rebels. Especially because her heart already belongs to someone else—a forbidden someone. But when she learns she is a vessel for a long-lost magic that could tear down the veil between the two worlds, the lines between hate and desire blur.
Lucan, Alpha by blood but cursed by prophecy, rejected his mate years ago to protect her from the darkness clawing at his soul. But Alina’s arrival, fragile, defiant, burning with power reignites what he tried to bury. And when war threatens to spill across realms, the only way to survive is together.
Forced into a bond neither of them wants, Alina and Lucan
are caught in a prophecy that foretells either salvation or destruction. But when Alina’s past lover, Kael, now an emissary of the Underworld returns with promises and lies, everything spirals.
As attraction ignites and loyalties shift, Alina must awaken her dormant magic before the King of the underworld breaks through the Veil. In a world where love is weaponized, magic is feared, and betrayal runs bone-deep, can two enemies become the key to peace—or will their bond doom both worlds?
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Chapter: CHAPTER 13: ACCEPTANCE Alina. The cold had seeped deeply into my body and I had begun to shiver. I welcomed the feeling and thought to myself, 'so this is how I'd go out huh ' it was fitting considering everything I put everyone through. I didn't know what to do, so I rinsed my face with the cool water and sat in the cold, wishing I could become a part of the calm flowing water. Suddenly, I could feel her before I saw her. Eirween. Why had she come for me? What was she hoping to achieve by coming here? These thoughts had my mind working in overdrive, I wasn't sure I wanted to return to the pack grounds so if she came to talk me out of it then she was going to be in for such a surprise. I didn’t bother looking up when I spoke. “I know you’re there.” “You always did have a sharp sense of the unseen,” she said, her voice gentle in a way that almost made me want to crumble. I turned my head just enough to glance at her. My eyes burned, my lashes still damp from tears I hadn’t been able to sw
Last Updated: 2025-08-14
Chapter: CHAPTER 12: A GLIMMER IN THE DARK Eirween. The stars had shifted. It was a subtle, quiet way that only someone like me would notice. A single thread out of place in the vast tapestry of the world. A tremble in the earth that wasn’t from storm or quake but emotion raw, untamed, and pulsing from the North. I closed the tome I’d been reading, the pages old and soft with wear, the ink faded but still legible under starlight. The runes along the cover shimmered faintly before dimming, content to rest. I placed the book back on the shelf carved directly into the tree’s inner wall. There was no urgency in my movement, only knowing. The kind that settles into your bones, ancient and absolute. I stepped out from my dwelling, the threshold vanishing behind me as bark and branch grew together once more. The forest always kept my secrets. My feet met the ground softly, and the moss rose to greet me. The path did not exist until I walked it, unfolding beneath each step like a ribbon spun from memory. Ferns parted, vines li
Last Updated: 2025-08-06
Chapter: CHAPTER 11: BORN OF ASH AND WILD THINGS Alina I grew tired of watching the stars through my window while my thoughts churned in my head. I decided to go for another walk, climbing down my bed, I put on a thick coat and boots and I tiptoed out of the house. I walked to the big tree that canopied over the ground by the north wall and I sat at the base of the tree. I closed my eyes. Let the forest wrap around me. The canopy above swayed gently, and a few leaves drifted down, soft as feathers. Somewhere nearby, a nightbird called once and went quiet again. A breeze stirred the water, carrying with it the scent of river mint and old stone. I inhaled it like a lifeline. The ground was cool beneath me, grounding. Solid My thoughts drift back to when I used to be a healer, my fingers absent mindedly twirl a blade of grass. It was the only time in my life I didn't have any problem that threatened world peace. I remember when I still had Malen in my life and our adventures as healers. Malen used to be such a ray of
Last Updated: 2025-08-06
Chapter: CHAPTER 10: TO TRAIN A VESSEL Alina. The scent of fresh bread, crisped meat, and wild herbs wraps around me like a memory. It hits the second I step into the packhouse kitchen, and suddenly, I feel five years old again, feet dangling off the bench while my mother hands me the first slice of buttered honeybread. That was a lifetime ago. Now, the kitchen is packed with wolves. Some half-shifted, some human, all buzzing with the kind of energy that makes my head pound. I don’t want to be here. But the second I tried to sneak off to training without eating, I got caught by the Beta’s wife like a chick by a hawk. “Sit, girl,” she snaps, her voice all flint and no fluff. I obey. No point fighting a war I won’t win. A plate clatters in front of me, heaped high with eggs, root veggies, meat, and something green I don’t recognize but eat anyway. My stomach growls despite the knot of dread tightening under my ribs. The Beta’s mate, goddess of food and terrifying domestic power plants herself across from me, arms folde
Last Updated: 2025-08-05
Chapter: CHAPTER 9: THE DARKNESS Kael I allow myself to be engulfed by the darkness, the entrance to the underworld. My home, my destiny. My entire existence revolves around the success of this whole elaborate plan. I spot my home from a distance, it's nothing pretty which is the standard for an environment that oozes destruction and hate. Its a brick building, with dark obsidian walls on the inside and out. The dark colour basically overwhelmed every other aspect of the house so there's very little left to describe about it. I let myself in and turn on the light, it doesn't do much to alleviate the darkness though. I think it's just a mental thing I do, I've gotten so used to light on the surface and now I guess old habits die hard. A nod to the world above, a stubborn habit I’ve yet to break. The hallway smells like sulfur and smoke, part of the charm. My boots scrape against the cracked black tiles as I make my way to the living room. The furniture’s sparse and sharp-edged. No cushions. No warmth. J
Last Updated: 2025-08-05
Chapter: CHAPTER 8: LIPS OF THE UNDERWORLD.Alina. The kiss struck like a thunderclap. Kael’s lips on mine were the same as they’d always been, familiar and warm, commanding, yet edged with something feral. But I had changed, and this time, the kiss didn’t wrap me in the safety of forgotten dreams. It cracked me wide open. The second our mouths met, my magic flared like wildfire, unbidden and violent. I felt it, and I couldn't control it. The air trembled. The earth shuddered beneath our feet. All around us, the Veil thinned just enough for the air to take on that familiar, sulfur-laced bite of the Underworld. It was the scent of charred roses and ancient blood, of promises broken and fates rewritten. Kael drew back slowly, eyes locked on mine. There was a smirk playing at his lips, but it didn’t reach his eyes. No triumph. Just something haunted. Something hollow. “Still burns,” he murmured, his thumb brushing my cheek. “I thought I was the only one who remembered what we were.” I stumbled back, heart pounding, br
Last Updated: 2025-07-29
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