A queen. A murderer. A lonely wolf building a team against her home's greatest threat.

I was the Alpha Queen.

Now, I'm just an Alpha murderer...

...and the survivor of a coup.

Mom had me banished and declared herself the High Alpha Queen.. My cousin nearly had me killed.

Both of them captured my fated mate. Both of them are rushing, pell-mell, across our country in a breakneck attempt at magically forcing every human around to become a shifter.

Because, you know, if we were all the same, everyone who isn't like us would see how great it is and we'd all be one big, happy, shifter family.

All of this could've been prevented if I'd just pushed back against Mom way back when I lived at home.

And I know what you're thinking: you clearly didn't stop them before. How do you think you're going to do that now?

Well, it's the only thing I can do, in the face of all this destruction: free my Fated Mate and stop Mom.

That's not me saying it'll be easy. I did actively avoid learning magic because of how much I hated Mom using it, so what little I remember is confined to what happens in potions room.

I'm also going to have to work my way in with Mom's people, if I want to have any hope of overthrowing her, so it's not as if I can fully shut them down.

That doesn't mean they won't have me arrested on sight...or worse. But that's a risk I'll have to take if I'm ever going to get them on my side and end this suffering for good.