Serena Blythewood

Sera Hudson, last heir of the fallen House Hudson, infiltrates the heart of Fenris Keep disguised as a battlefield physician, bent on avenging her family’s massacre by killing Cain Elvis—the legendary “Crimson Moon Blade” Alpha. When her poisoned scalpel fails, she becomes Cain’s reluctant prisoner and is bound to him by the forbidden Vow-Blood Rite, forging a psychic link that shares every wound, memory, and heartbeat. Forced into his war council as a strategist, Sera discovers the price of vengeance is far deeper than she ever imagined.

As they plan battles against human fortresses and survive ambushes, Sera senses hidden truths in Cain’s scars and haunted past. Torn between the Assassin League’s demands and her growing empathy for the Alpha she vowed to kill, she uncovers a century-old conspiracy: her own father and the human king orchestrated her people’s slaughter. Branded a traitor, Sera risks everything to expose the lie beneath the war.

Their flight as fugitives leads them to the Wolf Council, where betrayal erupts into violence. In a final gambit at Dawn Gorge, Sera detonates an inferno that shatters the League’s power—and nearly destroys the psychic bond that saved them both. Five years later, as the “White Raven” envoy, Sera returns to Fenris, her scar a testament to sacrifice and hope. Reunited under a blooming moonlily garden, she and Cain renew their oath—no longer bound by blood, but by a shared promise to heal two nations that once bled for lies.

Vow of the Blood-Moon

Five years later, Fenris’s rebuilt capital gleamed beneath the spring equinox sun. Marble spires and silver banners commemorated the Treaty of Twin Relics: a pact forged by two lives bound—and unbound—by blood. Alpha Cain Elvis, now High Guardian of the Northern Coalition, stood atop the reconstructed palace steps, brooding over the courtyard where children of wolf and human heritage played beneath white-lilied arches.


Beside him, Captain Merek murmured, “The Free Human Republic envoy arrives at any moment.” His voice held a mixture of awe and apprehension. “They say she carries the White Raven seal.”


Cain’s golden eyes flickered with something more—uncertainty. He shifted, the memory of Sera’s final breath still echoing in his bones.


A horn sounded in the distance. Soldiers snapped to attention as a lone rider emerged beneath a dove-gray cloak, hood drawn low. A white-feathered raven perched on her gauntlet, its silver eyes gleaming.


Chapter 19 – Envoy of the White Raven