For eighteen years, Princess Celest has known only cruelty.
Locked away, starved, and slowly poisoned by the royal family who calls her "daughter," she has survived in silence and stolen scraps of hope.
But on the night of her banishment, everything she was told to believe about herself begins to unravel.
Hunted across the borders of Vallmond, Celest stumbles into the lands of Pleiades, and into the path of Aylin, a Lycan Alpha who has waited over a century for the mate the moon promised him.
The girl trembling before him is no ordinary runaway.
She is the lost heir of a forgotten prophecy.
She is the lycan her captors tried to bury. She is the Queen of the Cosmos.
As the poison lifts and her wolf Capella stirs to life, Celest must reckon with the goddess who chose her, the pack that would die for her, and the darkness that hunts her still. Six broken lands are waiting for a queen to rise.
But first, Celest must learn she was never meant to kneel.
