Nora Crossa was born on a night when her mother—the Luna of the Crossa Pack—nearly bled to death in the healing center. From that moment on, everyone in the Crossa family called her a cursed pup, a little demon who would steal the family's good fortune. When she fell and split her forehead open, her father won a seat on the Alpha Council. When she nearly drowned, her sister became cheer captain. When she was locked inside a storage room with a broken wolfsbane sample and lay unconscious all night, her brother took the championship at the Heir Training Camp. Nora once believed it was all coincidence—until seven days before her fourteenth birthday, when she overheard her father, mother, and brother discussing plans to hurt her once more before her birthday, all to secure the North Ridge resource rights, the heir investiture, and her sister's competition qualification.
From that moment, a countdown began in Nora's heart. In seven days, she would turn fourteen—the age when she was supposed to awaken her wolf spirit. Yet during those seven days, she continued to be ignored by her family, framed by classmates, humiliated by her sister, and used by her parents. Naively, she believed tha…
