Claimed at the Alpha Academy

Avery Carter has spent her whole life as the smallest wolf in her pack, the one her father breaks down and her brother Stewart likes to cruelly test. So she runs: out a second-story window, into the dark woods, with a backpack packed in secret and months of planning behind her. She expects trackers. She expects punishment. What she gets is a steep hill, a fall that nearly kills her, and strangers who carry her somewhere no runaway would ever dare look for shelter: Harrison's Alpha Academy.

The academy is not a refuge. It is a forge. Every year young wolves arrive there to be broken down and rebuilt by Alpha Harrison, the Alpha King's son, a legend with cold eyes, claw scars across his chest, and one rule above all the rest: a true werewolf is fearless, strong, and shows no mercy. He wants the quiet girl with the eggplant-purple hair gone by morning. His sister Rachael, who found Avery bleeding at the bottom of that hill, has already decided she stays. Then Harrison's wolf catches her scent and says the one word he never wanted to hear. He asked the Moon Goddess never to give him a mate. She gave him one anyway.

What starts as spilled tea and kitchen banter turns into late-night confessions, a bonfire under the pines, and a pull neither of them can deny. But claiming Avery means showing her the scars across his chest and the night that put them there: a mother torn apart by rogues while he lay bleeding and helpless. Avery carries scars of her own, and hers are still bleeding.

Her family is not finished with her. Her brother is coming to drag her home, and her father has been hiding a secret old enough to start a war. When Stewart's pack finds the academy, Avery does the only thing she can to protect the people who took her in: she lies, claims she was a spy all along, and walks away with the enemy. Harrison finally understands what she is to him exactly one moment too late, and he will tear everything her father built apart to get her back.

Then one bite changes everything. A witch-made venom called the Howler is killing the future King, and the cure died with the witch who brewed it. Avery's hunt leads to a rotting house deep in the woods, a young woman guarding her mother's darkest recipes, and a truth nobody saw coming: Avery carries a rare gift, the power to take another creature's pain, even its poison, into her own body. Saving her mate may cost Avery her life, and the men who made her childhood hell have one last betrayal to answer for.

Claimed at the Alpha Academy is a full-length werewolf romance about a broken girl who was never weak and the scarred Alpha who has to learn he was never unworthy. Fated mates, enemies-to-lovers heat, deadly pack feuds, a royal secret, a wedding, and a choice made on the other side. All intimate moments fade to black. The tension does not.