The Abandoned Luna's Return
Elara Vance was the "human defect" of the Blood Moon Pack, a nameless clerk who endured twenty-one years of mockery for her inability to shift. Her life is systematically dismantled when her mate, Alpha Fenris, publicly rejects her during their mating ceremony. To add to the cruelty, he claims Elara’s younger sister, Sarah, whose legendary white wolf shift is hailed as the pack’s new salvation. Disowned by her father and hunted into the Black Woods by those she once served, Elara is forced into the lethal Silver River.
However, the river does not claim her. She is rescued by Silas Vane, the enigmatic Shadow King, who reveals a terrifying truth: Elara isn't a wolf at all. She is the last scion of the Vespera, a primordial race of dragons who ruled the world long before the Moon Goddess birthed the first werewolf. The wolves didn’t reject her because she was weak; they rejected her because their predatory instincts feared her as their natural superior.
Driven by a thirst for justice, Elara returns to the Blood Moon coronation not as a victim, but as a reckoning. Using the awakened Vespera Heart, she shatters the Alpha’s power, dissolves the pack’s very existence, and brands Fenris and Sarah with the "Mark of the Outcast"—stripping them of their wolves forever.
Transforming into a massive, obsidian-scaled dragon, Elara claims the northern territories for the Shadow Throne. But her vengeance is only the beginning. As the Western Packs mass their armies to extinguish the dragon fire, Elara and Silas must navigate a world of shifting alliances and ancient secrets. The age of the wolf has reached its bloody twilight, and a new era of shadow and flame has begun.