All Chapters of The Hollow Moon Awakens: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

Nadia’s PovMy name is Nadia, and I died once, and I remember all of it.I remember the taste of blood in my mouth and the knife being driven into my chest. Seraphine was standing over me, smiling like a child on her birthday, while my husband, the man I loved more than my own life, was nowhere to be found.So when I open my eyes and find myself in my childhood bedroom, I don't scream or cry. I just lie there, very still, and think.I haven't lived here in years. I left this house when I married Alpha Dorian Kane.I sit up fast and look down at my hands.They're young, soft, with no scars or a wedding ring.I scramble out of bed and run to the mirror, and the girl staring back at me makes my blood run cold.I'm seventeen again."No way," I whisper. "This isn't real."I pinch my arm hard, and it hurts. I touch the mirror, and it's cold under my fingers. I press my hand flat against my chest, right where the knife went in.Nothing, no wound, no scar. Just my heart beating fast.I'm awa

The same moon that watched Nadia awaken shone over another kingdom that night.It crossed forests, mountains, and frozen rivers until it found another girl standing beneath its light.She wasn't about to die…She was about to hear three words that would ruin her life.Lyra’s PovLet me tell you something no one ever tells you when you're the plus-size girl with a beautiful sister.You learn to make jokes. Not because you're funny, but because jokes become your armor. If you laugh at yourself first, it hurts less when they laugh at you.My name is Lyra Thorne, and I've been building that armor for eighteen years.Tonight, I'm going to need every piece of it.Tonight is the Choosing, the night when wolves who have come of age stand before the pack, and the Moon Goddess reveals the mate bonds. Three hundred wolves are packed into the hall. Torches burn gold against the dark, and everyone is wearing their finest.And this year, for the first time in Silverpine's history, the royal family s

Far from the snow of Silverpine and the golden leaves of the Voss valley, the same moon rose over a fortress on a mountainside. The Alpha Academy. The place where the future rulers of every pack are made, and somewhere inside its walls, a third girl was carrying a secret that could burn the whole mountain down.Wren's PovThe trick to surviving the Alpha Academy is to simply be invisible.When you are invisible, no one will notice you or ask you questions you can't answer.My name is Wren, and I chose it myself because nobody bothered to give me one that fit. And I have been invisible for three years.Everyone says I'm the luckiest girl alive. A nobody orphan, adopted by Alpha Marcus, and sent to the most elite school in the kingdom without a drop of Alpha blood in my veins. People say it like I won a prize.Here's what the prize actually looks like.I wake before dawn to press my "sister" Delphine's uniform. I carry her books, fetch her coffee, and stand outside her classes like a sh

Nadia's PovThe wax cracks beneath my thumb, and for one long moment, nothing in the world moves."Nadia?" My father is still holding the scroll, smiling through his happy tears, and he has no idea that anything is wrong. To him, the seal simply broke, the way old wax does. "Careful, girl. That's the King's blessing you're tearing.""Sorry, Papa." My voice comes out normal; I don't know how I'm able to do that. "Clumsy hands." I finally sayHe laughs and carries the scroll off to show the neighbors, holding it like a newborn. I stand alone in our front room, my thumb pressed against my dress, right where I hid the wax seal.My skin can still remember its faint, steady pulse, like it was alive.I'm sure something felt me touch it. It's the same feeling you get when you know someone is staring at the back of your neck, even before you turn around.Mneme? I call inside. Mneme, talk to me, but she remains silent.For eight years of my first life, my wolf was a quiet, shy little thing, and

While Nadia smiled at her murderer across a dinner table in the south, the moon turned its face north again, back to the girl whose bond refused to die; seven days had passed at Silverpine too and they had not been kind ones.Lyra's PovLet me tell you how that night ended, because nobody got what they wanted, least of all me.After the light died and the steam rose off the melted circle, the three of us stood in the dark, and the silence got heavier and heavier, until Dorian Kane broke it."Well," he said warmly, the mask sliding back on so smoothly I almost doubted what I'd seen underneath. "It seems the lady has much to think about. My offer stands, Lyra Thorne. My pack lies three valleys east; any road will find it." He bowed to me, like I was somebody. "I have business in the south that can't wait. But we will meet again, I'm certain of it."And he walked into the trees and was gone, just like that, leaving me alone in the snow with the prince who rejected me and the bond that wo