Length8h 11m
About this audiobook
The bonfire catches the shift in Lena Ashford's chest before her mind does. Someone has strung lanterns through the lower branches of the pines, fifty wolves press close together, and after three years of standing at the edge of the Moonhowl Gatherings she has finally been asked to stand beside the alpha.
Cade says her name. He takes her hand. Then he says it again, and finishes the sentence: *As alpha of the Shadow Pack, I invoke the right of refusal.*
His reason is a prophecy. *The Ashford bloodline carries a curse.* The bond that has hummed beneath Lena's skin since her first bleed at fifteen tears out of her in front of the whole pack, and she is led home to her grandmother's cottage with a wound that will not close.
Lena is a healer, from three generations of healers, and she does not leave. She keeps the greenhouse. She treats the people who stood and watched. And she starts pulling at the prophecy, because the man reciting it had his jaw locked and his hands shaking.
What she finds underneath is not a curse. Cade's father altered the pack records. *The original prophecy didn't speak of destruction. It spoke of union.* The thing waiting under the Oathstone is not a metaphor either: it is Edna's own sister, driven through with a silver blade and buried there sixty years ago, and Edna's long fever is not a sickness at all but the price of holding that seal shut one more day.
And Sierra, who wants to be alpha female and has wanted it since they were children, has been working the other side of it the whole time. She is also Lena's sister, which is why her confession lands the way it does. *I pushed you into that fire. I was seven years old.*
To bind the demon again, Lena needs a bond that is given, not extracted: *Not forced. Not manipulated. Not borne of duty or fear or pack pressure.* Which means she needs Cade, the man who unmade her on the ceremonial stone, to choose her a second time with nothing arranged around it, no elders, no prophecy, no pack watching.
And something has been hunting the Ashford line for three generations, and it is awake.
This is a wolf-shifter paranormal romance about a rejected fated mate who stays, reads the records, and ends up giving the orders; the heat is closed-door.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance
Length8 hrs 11 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
2Prologue
3Chapter 1 - The Wound That Doesn’t Heal
4Chapter 2 - The Alpha’s Request
5Chapter 3 - The Journal’s Secret
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6Chapter 4 - Stone and Shadow
7Chapter 5 - The Rogue’s Trail
8Chapter 6 - The Weight of the Moon
9Chapter 7 - Sierra’s Game
10Chapter 8 - The Keeper’s Confession
11Chapter 9 - The Shadow Well
12Chapter 10 - The Bond Rekindled
13Chapter 11 - The First Touch of Trust
14Chapter 12 - The Gathering Storm
15Chapter 13 - The Choice of a Wolf
16Chapter 14 - The Traitor’s Reveal
17Chapter 15 - The March of Shadows
18Chapter 16 - The Demon’s Cradle
19Chapter 17 - The Second Rejection
20Chapter 18 - The Hollowed Healer
21Chapter 19 - The Road Back to Him
22Chapter 20 - The Alpha’s Offer
23Chapter 21 - The Trial by Shadow
24Chapter 22 - The Demon’s Return
25Chapter 23 - The Cost of Redemption
26Chapter 24 - The Oath Restored
27Chapter 25 - The Shadow Bond
28Epilogue
29About the Author
30The End
31About the Author
32Also by Skye Ravenna
33Acknowledgements
34A Note from the Author
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