Helena Belmonte

Paramedic Lenka has spent her life in foster care, unaware of her true lineage until she pulls a bleeding man from the city's treacherous river. The claw marks on his chest and the strange resonance of his blood awaken something violent and ancient within her. She is the last surviving heir of the Blazsek family, the murdered alphas who once ruled the city's hidden werewolf syndicates. Now, Tibor Zemanek—the ruthless alpha who controls the breweries, the bridges, and the police unions—knows she exists and will stop at nothing to eliminate her. Her only chance at survival comes from an impossible alliance: Radek Krizsek, Tibor's lethal second-in-command, a man whose loyalty to the Zemanek pack masks his own dangerous endgame. As Lenka learns to harness the wolf she never knew she had, she must navigate a deadly political underworld where one wrong step means death, and decide if the man protecting her is her greatest ally or the architect of her destruction.

Two hundred years ago, the werewolves of the Trevelloc clan closed off their island to the rest of the world. Now, they are the only ones who know what happened to Tressa’s brother.

Tressa is a cartographer, accustomed to measuring physical shores and charting visible tides. But when her brother vanishes on the banned coasts of Keresek, her instruments cannot help her. Desperate, she strikes a bargain with Kadek, the clan's formidable and insular alpha. He possesses the map she needs; she offers him one year of service in a clan that despises outsiders.

Their bargain binds them to the island's lethal terrain. Plunged into a brutal society where power is claimed by craft and physical survival, Tressa must navigate treacherous fishing politics, cliffside hazards, and a magnetic, terrifying pull toward the one man she swore to hate. Surrounded by enemies and the encroaching tide of clan warfare, she realizes too late: finding her brother means surviving the werewolves, and the price of the alpha's protection might be her freedom.