Description
When a blood-marked witch steps into cursed wolf territory, she expects to fight. She doesn't expect the land to recognize her. Seren has spent her life surviving the bond that was never hers to choose - a legacy of magic, prophecy, and silence passed down by witches who once feared the forest more than they understood it. But when she bleeds on the ancient shrine hidden deep within wolf-run lands, she awakens something older than the packs. Something that doesn't want to be sealed again. Kael is Alpha by birth but not by hunger. Stoic, fierce, and bound to a curse he never believed in, he watches Seren with more than suspicion. He watches her like a question - one only the forest can answer. And when her magic starts reshaping the world around them, he'll have to decide whether she's his mate... or the end of everything he knows. But the spiral magic doesn't demand obedience. It demands a choice. As ancient powers stir, blood oaths fracture, and the bond between witch and wolf deepens, Seren must unravel the truth behind the curse - and decide whether fate was ever written in stone, or if love can be carved into something new.
Chapter One - The Scent of Him
