BLOODBOUND: THE LAST MATE
The stars were overhead and the Citadel was below them and the realm was all around them, and she was twenty-four years old and she was the Queen of it, and she was standing on the high tower with the man who had waited three hundred years for her in a blue dress, and the thing before naming was warm and present in her chest, and she was entirely, completely, finally herself.
"Do you know what the Shunned Star texts say at the very end of the sixth volume?" she asked.
"No," he said.
"They say: and what comes after her, we do not know."
"And what do you think comes after?" he asked.
She looked out at the realm — the pack territories and the vampire court and the covenant and the compact and e