MERIT D
I was born an Alpha’s daughter, yet in the Rivercrest Pack, I was treated like a ghost. While my twin sister was celebrated as the strongest wolf of our generation, my wolf had never awakened, making me the pack’s greatest disappointment, the daughter who had never shifted and the shame my father could never hide.
Then came the peace treaty. To end a decades-old war with the Fireclaw Pack, Rivercrest was required to send one of Alpha Darius’s daughters to the enemy territory. They expected a daughter blessed with a powerful wolf, someone worthy of becoming the future Luna of Fireclaw.
Instead, my father chose me.
The daughter he considered weak. The daughter he believed was nothing more than a burden to be handed away. When I was told I was being sent to Fireclaw, I thought I was being sacrificed as a worthless servant, a punishment for the weakness my family could never accept.
But the truth was revealed on the day I was supposed to leave for Rivercrest. I was not being sent away as a slave, I was chosen as the future Luna of the strongest pack in the North, destined to marry the heir of Fireclaw.
Yet entering Fireclaw does not mean I am finally accepted. I am still the wolfless daughter of Rivercrest, an outsider among the very wolves I am expected to lead.
With a husband who sees our bond as duty and enemies determined to see me fail, I must prove that I am more than the weakness everyone believes me to be.
But the greatest betrayal I faced was never waiting across the border. It came from my own family.
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