Awakening Of The White And Red Wolf

Something answered when she touched that door. Now she stands before a king with blood on herdress, a mark burned into her palm, and accused of murders she cannot remember committing. Sephrya Voss survived Thornhollow Keep's lower halls by being invisible. She washed linens.She mended cloth. She did not dream, because dreaming cost too much. But the night she followedthe wrong corridor into the royal catacombs and pressed her palm against a sealed door she wasnever meant to find, the magic inside it answered her like a name held in a long breath.Something ancient is waking inside her blood — white and red, cold and burning, two forces shecannot control — and the only man in the palace not afraid of it is the king she has beendragged before in chains. King Rhaedric Vaelor rules with iron discipline and no illusions. He knows what the mark onher palm means. He knows what is waking inside her. He knows the sealed door beneath his palacehas been waiting, and that a mate bond recognized at court is a blade held at a king's throat.He steps between her and the Council that wants her dead — not out of mercy, but because hiswolf recognized her the moment she walked through the doors. His enemies have already begunto move. Sephrya is not a pawn. But she is surrounded by players, and she does not yet knowthe board. The white wolf inside her wants to heal. The red wolf wants to burn. And somewhere betweenthe two of them — a servant girl who was never supposed to matter, and a king who cannotafford to feel — a realm is about to learn what happens when the things it tried to buryfinally wake up. Some doors are sealed for a reason. Some were sealed for her.