As the academy’s top cadet, I’m everything the Mages want: obedient, lethal, and essential to winning the war. My past as a powerless orphan is buried beneath medals and bloodshed.

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Then I make one mistake and I’m sent plummeting toward death—and into the grasp of the enemy’s most feared leader. The Northern Pack’s alpha saves my life… and marks me with his bite, binding me to a fate I was never meant to survive.

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If the academy discovers the truth, I won’t be punished. I’ll be erased.

 

But the shifter who marked me doesn’t see me as a mistake.

 

He wants me. Watches me. Hunts me.

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He won’t take no for an answer.

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And he isn’t alone.