Halo: Reach Timeline

Aria Hale once believed the Moon Goddess had blessed her when she found her fated mate. But the night Alpha Kael Blackthorn rejected her before his entire pack, her world shattered. She had come to the Silver Crest Pack with nothing but courage and hope, an orphan from a destroyed clan, dreaming of a place to belong. Instead, she was branded unworthy, her heart torn apart by the man destiny had chosen for her. Kael was power and pride wrapped in human form, a leader who feared weakness more than death. He convinced himself that love was a burden he could not afford, that tenderness would destroy the Alpha he was meant to be. So when fate placed a gentle, broken girl in his path, he turned away. He broke the bond and drove her from his territory, believing that rejection would set him free. He was wrong. Years passed, but her scent of lavender haunted him through every battle and every sleepless night. His wolf mourned for what had been lost. He told himself she was gone, but the ache never faded. Somewhere deep inside, Kael knew that part of him had died the moment she walked away. Far from his reach, hidden in a quiet human valley called Mistwood, Aria built a new life. She healed others with her herbs and her kindness, raising a secret that carried both her heart and her pain — a boy with golden eyes and the same strength she once saw in his father. She named him Liam, and he became her reason to breathe.

Experiment two hundred and eighty-seven was never meant to have a name. She was grown in a lab and engineered as property. But when a vine curls toward light, it does so by instinct. When two hundred and eighty-seven meets the silent, conflicted guard assigned to watch her-Atlas-something begins to shift. Not just in her... but in him. In a facility where lives are test groups, and emotions are weaknesses to be exploited, one failed experiment's hunger for freedom becomes contagious. What begins as a quiet rebellion sparks a chain reaction-an uprising of the unwanted, the unstable, and the forgotten. As Rosa-a name owned by her alone-leads a breakout that fractures the foundation of the facility, she must decide if survival is enough... or if real freedom means burning it all down. As for Atlas, once a tool of control, he must choose who he is when the truth comes to light. A sci-fi rebellion story where the monsters remember their humanity better than their makers do-and one girl's roots reach far enough to shake the world.