The wind continued moving through the shattered windows as Grand Chancellor Magnus stood before the council.

Snow gathered along the edge of the platform where Cora had manifested. Broken pieces of the suppression pillars lay across the stone floor, their purple r

The anonymous message arrived the next morning.

I sat alone in the Obsidian Citadel’s grand library, surrounded by books Alistair had gathered on the Storm-Bringer lineage. Most contained only fragments—battle accounts, council prohibitions, and illustrations copie

The southern warning changed the purpose of my training.

I was no longer preparing only for council suspicion. I was preparing to defend villages filled with wolves who had never seen me but legally depended on me.

That responsibility frightened me more