Clara

Leah Winter stopped believing in kindness the day the Winters adopted her.

For ten years, she’s been the servant, the scapegoat, the invisible girl.

St. Helena Academy was supposed to be her escape. Instead, it’s the cage where a cruel bet proves that nobles will always see her as trash.

Broken and fleeing into the night, Leah does the unthinkable: she saves a dying wolf.

What she doesn’t know is that the beast she bound her life to is Raynor Hale—the most feared Alpha heir on the continent, now disguised as her academy instructor.

He’s cold. He’s relentless. And he’s obsessed with the only woman who ever chose to heal him instead of running.

As Leah’s hidden bond grows into an unbreakable claim, she must navigate a world that wants to destroy her:

jealous nobles, a scheming council, and a family that suddenly realizes they threw away a queen.

Raynor didn’t ask for a gentle love.

He asked for her—all her bruises, her courage, and the fire she doesn’t know she has.

And he’ll raze every wall between them until she finally believes she’s worth the war.

Icy rain soaked the stone steps of the orphanage. Chloe opened her eyes from the agony of death—and found herself five years old again.

Three years before the Sterling family would come to claim her.

In her past life, she had thought finding her biological father was salvation. She was wrong. It was hell.

Mia, the Sterling family's shining adopted daughter, had taken everything that should have been hers.

Her father's cold indifference. The cruelty of the elite. The endless humiliation that finally dragged her into the abyss.

"You're not even worth the dirt on Mia's shoes."

Those words had become her dying curse.

Now, reborn with a debt of blood and vengeance, she is determined to rewrite her fate.
All she wants is a quiet, ordinary family and a life far from the Sterlings. But when she sets her sights on a weary man in a worn trench coat—a man who looks like nothing more than a tired working-class father—

she stumbles into a secret far darker than she imagined:

Mia's real parents were murdered by Parecesis himself.

Chloe is no longer the broken girl drowning in the mud. She is the blade in the dark.

She will make them pay. Every debt. Every drop of blood.

She will drag Mia from her gilded throne and force her to face the truth:

she was never a daughter. She was a replacement.

And Chloe will tear the Sterling family's mask to pieces—with her own hands.