The Exile's Path

“Blurb - Serial Platform She was supposed to be nothing. Eighteen years in a pack that measured worth in claw and fang, and Kallia never shifted once. No wolf. No place. No future. So she did the only thing she could - she ran, crossed the border into the human lands, and built a quiet life grinding herbs behind a village apothecary's counter. A year of peace. A year of being nobody. A year of pretending the silence inside her didn't ache. Then the rogues came. Darius of the Ironwood pack was hunting a killer when a girl with a blade and violet eyes stepped between a monster and a man and didn't flinch. She should have been forgettable. She should have been a stray on the road, a problem handed off to the next patrol. Instead she's the first person in years who looked at him and saw a man, not an inheritance - and the pull between them is not something either of them chose. He's taking her north. His pack will hate her. His council will test her. And somewhere beneath the polite lies and the careful questions, the wolf she buried is beginning to wake. She has no idea what she is. He has no idea what she'll become. And neither of them knows that the bond they're fighting was forbidden long before either of them was born. ---”