Ashes to Power, The Rise of a Luna

Synopsis

I heard everything. The warmth of Josiah's hand still lingered on my skin as he whispered sweet nothings to Estella—right beside my supposedly lifeless body. "She won't wake," he said, brushing my hair like I was already dead. "We've taken her wolf, her womb, her future. The pack will think she died from the attack." Estella giggled, her lips brushing his. "And with your heir growing inside me, no one will question my place as Luna." That was the moment my heart truly stopped—not from the poison they'd injected into my veins, but from the realization that the man the Moon Goddess had chosen for me was nothing more than a coward wrapped in Alpha skin. I was supposed to be his fated mate. The future Luna of the Silver Fang Pack. And yet here I was, broken and drugged, listening to my mate and my best friend plan my erasure. But I didn't die. I stayed silent. I waited. And I listened—to every lie, every betrayal, every kiss they shared thinking I couldn't feel it. They thought I was gone. Until the night my quarters burned and a body was found in the ashes. Let them mourn. Let them celebrate. Because I'm still alive—and I'm coming back. Not as the Luna they betrayed. But as the threat they never saw coming.