LOGINHeartbreak is supposed to kill a wolf’s spirit, but Aria Vale refuses to die quietly. Humiliated before her entire pack when her fated mate publicly rejects her, Aria returns home, shattered and furious, only to find a black envelope waiting on her bed. Inside lies an invitation to a deadly challenge known only as The Game: “Survive, and win what your heart desires most.” With nothing left to lose, Aria enters a realm beyond her world, an ancient castle suspended between life and death, where each dawn brings a new trial of survival. Competitors vanish one by one, hunted by the magic that governs the Game. But not everyone is what they seem. One contestant, a charming, infuriatingly optimistic wolf named Kael, seems more interested in keeping her alive than winning himself. His warmth disarms her, his smiles irritate her, and his secrets could destroy them both. Now Aria must survive the trials, outsmart the goddess who created them, and decide what freedom truly means: breaking her bond to the mate who betrayed her, or risking everything for the wolf who was never supposed to love her.
View MoreHello, My Lovely Readers,I want to say thank you to everyone who saw this book to the end. I know it is very different from the other stories that can be found on this app. I enjoyed creating the world around Nyxara's nightmares, and I hope you enjoyed it as well. Thanks again for reading. Solange Daye
AriaThe stones are warm beneath my fingers.The sun has just crested the eastern towers, spilling gold across the courtyard in long, lazy streaks that catch on carved edges and softened corners. Ten stones stand in a half circle at the center of the garden, smooth, pale granite hauled in from the river cliffs and shaped by hand.By our hands.Each one bears a name.I trace them slowly, one by one, the way I always do.Corran. Loira. Therin. Renna. Maeven. Silen. Nyra. Garrin. The others who never reached the end.Ten.Only ten this time.The Game took more in other lives. More in other cycles. Sometimes, whole crowds. Sometimes, only Kael and I, standing alone in the aftermath, surrounded by ghosts.The other names will come to me, I will remember them in time, and when I do, I will add them, but for now, this is a start.I kneel in the grass, tucking a wildflower between two of the stones. It’s ridiculous how soft the courtyard is now. The grass is thick beneath my knees, c
Aria“We live.”The words are barely out of my mouth before Kael’s hand tightens around mine.Not gently or carefully, he tugs me forward with a sudden urgency that steals my breath and sends me stumbling half a step as he pulls me toward the castle doors.“Kael, ” I laugh, startled. “Where are we going?”“Home,” he says simply.The doors swing open before we reach them. Not with magic. Not with ceremony. Just… doors opening.Warm light spills out across the stone steps, and sound rushes toward us, voices, movement, life. The smell of food, smoke, and bodies packed together hits me all at once.I freeze in the doorway. The great hall is full. Not with contestants or nightmares, but people.Men and women in travel-worn clothes, warriors with dented armor, healers clutching satchels, children clinging to parents who look just as confused as they do. Creatures too, fae with dulled wings, horned beings I don’t have names for, shifters half-shifted and blinking like they’ve just woken
AriaI’m yanked upward with brutal force, my body tearing free from the crushing weight of nightmares as the world around me screams. Shadows peel away like rotting skin, ripping back from my limbs as I gasp, sucking in air so sharp it burns.I collapse forward, straight into Kael. His arms lock around me instantly, crushing me against his chest as the illusion shatters.The Jasper Pack dissolves into fragments of light and ash. Faces melt away mid-scream. The ground splits, the forest tearing itself apart as if the lie can no longer sustain its own weight.The nightmares shriek as they are dragged backward into nothing, unraveling thread by thread until there is only silence.And then there is stillness. It is just us, holding one another like we are each other’s lifelines, and it is because we are. Without him, there is no me. Kael and I stand alone in the void where the Game once pretended to be a life. There is nothing around us, only darkness, but it doesn’t feel empty. It
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