Everyone at Ironclaw Academy knows the rules. Wren Halstead is about to break all of them.
She's here on a forged name, hiding a half-blood coyote under a wolf's heritage, and she's lasted two years because no one has ever gotten close enough to smell the truth. Then Adrian Kestrel catches her scent in a corridor and doesn't tell a soul-he does something worse. He keeps her. His taunts. His rules. His private lessons in the dark of the archive room where his hands are gentler than his voice.
Adrian is meant to bond a rival pack's heiress when the ranking trials end. Wren is meant to stay quiet and survive. But the trials are open to anyone, and Wren has teeth even a wolf can feel.
When she takes the crown from him in front of the entire elite, the bond they've both been pretending isn't there snaps into place-and Adrian has to choose between the life he was bred for and the girl he spent two years breaking on purpose.
