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

Dawn’s first light bled pale gold across Fenris’s siege camp. Morning mist curled through rows of glinting trebuchets and battered shields, turning metal to molten fire. Sera Hudson stood beside a row of sharpened spears, feeling the bond’s steady thrum—Cain’s cautious resolve rippling through her veins. Soldiers stirred in quilted cloaks; scouts moved between tents like silent wolves.


A horn blast shattered the quiet. A messenger clad in Alder’s blue-and-silver livery burst into the council tent, breath ragged. “Alpha Elvis!” he gasped, extending a sealed parchment. Cain strode forward, gauntlet tapping impatience against the map table.


Sera slipped closer as Cain broke the royal seal. He read the letter, jaw tightening with each line. Finally he snapped it shut. “Trade Sera Hudson for the withdrawal of your siege engines at Dawn Gorge,” he translated, voice low. “No negotiation.”


Chapter 16 – Dawn Gorge Dilemma