Leah King was never meant to be sold, nor was she meant to become a fugitive—raised in a family that never accepted her, taken care of by a stepmother who had too many secrets, she just knew that things were going to head south very soon.
Born different from every other shifter, she carried a forbidden power. A power that was enough to reshape kingdoms…and dangerous enough to destroy her identity. So, when her stepmother, who hid behind cruel lies and schemes, auctioned her off to the highest bidder in the black market, Leah wasn’t the slightest bit surprised. But when a single touch from her caused the captor to burn alive, Leah had no other choice but to escape —or else she would be branded, hunted and taken to the most horrendous place where all feral beasts are taken.
Leah knew that she had to escape or die trying.
But her freedom was short-lived.
Captured by the Professors of the very place she hated, she was sent to Virelith Delinquent Academy. A brutal institution designed to contain the most dangerous and hideous criminals of their kind. There she was placed under the watch of five infamous and tyrannical instructors. Where they all were waiting for her.
Xavier, the alpha instructor, whose control was cracking beneath his grief and fury.
Josh, the feral enforcer, who refused to bond with her because he knew exactly what he would become if he were to let her get close.
Jeremy, the echo master, was cursed to remember every soul he had ever touched, including hers.
Rafael Solace, the sacred one whose presence should have been enough to ground her chaos.
And the one whose beast recognised her even when he pretended not to.
The bond between them was wrong.
It was too intense. Too consuming. Too alive.
And too terrifying.
Their echoes bleed into her blood, calling out to her. The closer they grew, the harder it became for her to tell where she began.
They wanted Leah to submit to them, to become obedient like every other feral beast that they had taken in. But Leah was not like the others. She was never meant to serve. She was meant to reign.