This chapter arrives Friday. Until then, a taste of what is coming:

Wrenna becomes the hunter. She sets the terms, the place, and the hour — the ruined shrine at moonrise, the whole Blackpine as witness — and summons Kael with the ribbon, the cloak, and a challenge delivered to the dark. He comes to find her waiting with her knife, her desire, and a plan to end Tomas's story for good.

The erotic peak of the novel: chase and capture traded back and forth, her dominance and his surrender braided together, until the trap Tomas set for the Wolf closes on the huntsman's own cruelty. It ends with Tomas disgraced, the horns silenced, and Kael kneeling — not tamed, but sworn.