Some vows were made to be broken. Others span centuries, awaiting their moment to hold true. AN HEIR ON THE RUN The wolf waiting in Natalya's blood has answered her call, just like her mother promised. With her wolf comes her inheritance as the trâesa, the savior of her people. But first, she must survive the soldiers who hunt her and find the one they took. AN ASSASSIN IN CHAINS Steel bars and a bellemancer's schemes hold Silas as bait, dangled to lure Natalya into the rescue she won't be able to resist. Silas is not one to wait, but his captors have magical secrets in store for the negata nobleman, the sort of secrets that only blood and souls can tell. A KINGDOM ON THE BRINK The wedding between Heinrik and Guinevere draws near, and with it, the queen's bloody promise of reckoning. Queen Alsea won't be the only one concealing blades at the culmination of the harvest festival. Phantom and Pain will bring theirs too. What none of them realize is that the empress of Verrain has celebration plans of her own, and her wedding guests have claws.