The Silent Western Hills Are All Devotion

"On the day of my coming-of-age ceremony,

Seraphina, my ""best friend"", broke our promise.

She said she was going to the Red Sand Desert for the Blood Moon festival.

I stood at the portal to our pack’s Sacred Grounds, Ancestor’s Peak, in a panic.

She had promised to come with me to Moonlight Lake on the Sacred Mountain.

That’s where I was supposed to make my first-bite confession to Kael.

It was the end of a ten-year crush. A ritual meant to bind our fates together.

Uneasily, I looked at Kael, my childhood friend.

Kael was polishing his silver dagger.