Episode I: The Stranger at Moonridge

Lena Hart had spent years running from Moonridge.

The town sat beneath dark pine-covered hills, quiet in daylight and strangely alive after sunset. It was the place where her mother had disappeared ten years ago, leaving behind only a silver crescent pendant and a warning Lena had never forgotten.

Never trust the wolves.

Now, after losing her job in the city, Lena had no choice but to return and take over her late grandmother’s bookstore. She told herself it would only be temporary.

On her first night back, she locked the shop late and heard a growl from the alley.

A huge black wolf stood beneath the streetlamp—its eyes an impossible gold.

Then a man stepped from the shadows.

He was tall, dark-haired, and wounded across the shoulder. His gaze held the same gold as the wolf’s.

“My name is Kael,” he said. “And you need to leave town before the next full moon.”

Episode II: A Dangerous Secret

Lena refused to be frightened away by a stranger, no matter how unsettling he was.

The next morning, Kael came into her bookstore wearing a crisp black shirt that did little to hide the bandage beneath it. He seemed different in daylight—less threatening, more exhausted. Still, something about him pulled at her.

When Lena pressed him about the wolf, Kael said nothing.

But that evening, she found claw marks carved across the bookstore’s front door.

Beneath them was a message:

THE HUMAN BELONGS TO NO ONE.

Kael arrived moments later, his jaw tight with anger.

“You’ve been noticed,” he said.

“By who?”

“My pack,” he answered. “And they think you are a threat.”

Episode III and IV coming soon...