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They said the moon chooses wisely. But when the moon chose her twin, no one questioned it.
Alira Vale was born seconds before her sister, yet somehow spent her entire life behind her second glance, second choice, second best. While Elira bloomed early into a powerful wolf adored by their pack, Alira remained unshifted at nineteen, whispered about as moon-cursed and quietly tolerated out of obligation. Still, she endured, with kindness that never hardened, with strength no one bothered to see.
Until the night everything shattered.
On the eve of the mating ceremony, Alira's long-awaited bond awakens, only for her mate to reject her publicly and claim her twin instead. Humiliated, broken, and abandoned by both fate and family, Alira does the unthinkable, she calls into the forbidden dark beyond pack borders. And something answers. Not wolf nor vampire but something far worse.
In a world where wolves and vampires barely coexist without bloodshed, Kael Draven, a feared hybrid born of both bloodlines, should never have come for her. Yet he does. Drawn not by duty, not by politics, but by something deeper. Something dangerous. Something like fate, but far more intentional.
As war brews between species and secrets unravel about her delayed transformation, Alira must confront a truth no one prepared her for: she was never late, she was never weak, she was never meant for them. And the man who chose her? He may be the beginning of everything, or the end of them all.
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