The Luna's Return

Lydia Strong has spent her whole life being told she is nothing. In the Lunar Pack she is the freak with multicolored eyes, the daughter her father drinks away his rage on, the girl the whole school loves to break. She shifted before anyone believed she could, and the only soul who ever knew the truth is gone. Then one cruel morning burns down everything she thought she knew about herself: a silver necklace that appeared from nowhere, voices waking in her blood, and the mate who looks at her with disgust.

"I, Aron Matthew, future alpha of the Lunar Pack, reject you, Lydia Strong..."

He says it where everyone can hear. She accepts it with her chin up, walks out of the only home she has ever known, and does not look back.

This is not the story of a broken girl. Lydia collapses on a border and wakes up among legends — the Sunset Pack, the strongest in America, the pack rumored to keep a witch, a vampire, a demon and an angel at its side. Its training ground grinds the victim out of her and forges something far more dangerous in her place. She arrives a frightened runaway and walks back into the school that cheered her tormentors as the silver wolf: stronger than an alpha, and utterly transformed.

And she does not come back alone. Harrison, the young alpha who found her bleeding and unconscious on his land, took one look at her and said one word: mate. Where Aron saw ugliness, Harrison sees everything — her strange eyes most of all. Their bond is slow fire. Teasing that turns scorching. Shadows that find her across a crowded room and make her gasp at nothing anyone can see. A birthday that ends under a full moon, with a bite and a door closed gently on what follows. The heat burns white on the page; the intimacy stays behind closed doors.

But Lydia's blood carries more than wolf. Five voices live behind her eyes — a wolf, a vampire, an angel, a demon, a witch — and each awakening brings new power and new pain. A mother she mourns is not finished with the world. A dragon knows her name. A vengeful uncle builds an army in the dark. And every moon goddess before her has watched her mate die so that she could live.

Lydia refuses that ending before she even knows it is coming.

Going home means facing the pack that threw her away: the alpha who rejected her and now cannot meet her eyes, the bully who once drew her blood and now begs at her door, and a warlord called Vane who wants the moon goddess walking in skin mounted on his wall as a warning to every pack that ever knelt. They think she came home to forgive. She came home to finish what her exile started — on her terms.

The Luna's Return is a full-length werewolf romance about a rejected Luna who stops waiting to be chosen and becomes the one who chooses. Expect fated mates, found family, slow-burn tension that finally catches fire, dormant powers awakening, and a heroine whose gentle heart is the most frightening thing about her.

Meet the girl they called freak. She is the Luna now — and the moon itself answers when she calls.