THE BARREN LUNA
Elva has spent five years as Luna of Blackthorn Ridge, a wolfless Omega the elders call a hen that cannot lay. Her mate, Alpha Eriq, is the only one who defends her. Then the Goddess finally answers her prayers with two pink lines on a pregnancy test, and Elva is ready to tell him with her hands on his face.
Instead, Eriq rides through the gate with another woman on his arm. Saskia Morrow, the Beta's daughter, is carrying his child, and the whole pack is whispering that the barren Luna should step aside.
Elva is stripped of her nursery, locked in her room, and denied water. Desperate, she slips out through the north postern with a healer's pouch, a carved wooden swan, and the secret