Life’s Spiced Up with Some Werewolf Reads
Ten years after being exiled for betraying her family, **Seraphina** rushes to the hospital after learning her estranged father has been attacked. Her brother’s hatred reignites old wounds, blaming her for destroying their family. But when her dying father asks to see “his daughter,” Seraphina must face a devastating truth—and the past she’s tried to forget.
But instead, after a beat, she shrugged. “Fine. Whatever. Just don’t add me to some never-ending notification hell. If my phone blows up at 3 a.m., I’ll kill all of you before the next challenge can.” Finn’s grin was so startled, so openly relieved, that I felt something warm bloom in my chest. Within minutes,…
Roxy didn’t let her finish. She gave Celeste a sharp shove to the shoulder, not enough to knock her down but enough to make her stumble half a step. “You wanna talk about dead weight? Look in a mirror, bitch.” Gasps rippled through the onlookers. Even I froze, caught between shock and a sudden, fierce…
She ignored me and instead stooped, dragging the edge of her boot against the dusty stone floor. Everyone watched with bated breath as she moved, until a rough circle enclosed the space between us and the Shadow Claw wolves. “Circle challenge,” she announced, lifting her chin. “Step out of the boundary, and you lose. Winner…
Roxy whooped, throwing her fists in the air. Judy laughed with unguarded joy. Talia clung to Finn’s arm, wide-eyed, as if she couldn’t tell if this was real. And me-I turned slowly, letting the moment wash over me. That’s when I saw her. Celeste. She stood with the Frostbane group, in the center, her golden…
Once again, I’d ingested the instructions and chanted them back to myself repeatedly: Six hours. Navigate the maze. Reach the Echo Altar at the center. Strike the correct sequence. Escape. Safe to say, this new weight pressed on my lungs like a vice. The walls were etched with strange markings-curves and slashes, dots and crescents,…
Either way, we were about to be separated, and half a team was no team. “Judy! Talia!” I shouted, sprinting forward. The slabs were moving too fast for them to pass through without the risk of being crushed. Judy braced her shoulder against the stone, muscles straining, face twisted in effort. “It’s no use! I…
She remembered? I set the bags Judy’s family had given me down, hands trembling, and lifted the lid. The aroma hit me first-sweet, tangy, spiced. Familiar. My chest constricted. It wasn’t some generic flavor pulled from Celeste’s favorites. It was mine. My favorite pie, at least. Cherry and almond, dusted with cinnamon sugar across the…
“Sorry, I-” I clamped my mouth shut instantly. I didn’t know who owned the raspy, shaky mess of a voice that had come out of my lips, but it sure as hell wasn’t me. The corner of his lips twitched in what I would have called amusement if the look in his eyes wasn’t so…
I didn’t know where to put the feeling it stirred. And oh, gods, the longing. It was actually painful, the knowledge that I didn’t have a family as warm and bright and happy as Judy’s. Siblings who adored me. A mother who doted on me. What did that woman in the forest say? ‘There is…
Her teammates snickered on cue, voices dripping venom. “Had to have been luck.” “They won’t last another round.” “Losers dragging losers to the finish line-pathetic.” I was used to condescending barbs, and they all bounced off my skin like rubber pellets. But I couldn’t say the same for my team. For Talia, who shrank into…