Moonfang Covenant

Kael Thornhart was the crown’s executioner — a man paid to obey, kill, and never question the law. That ends the day he is ordered to execute a young wolfkin girl named Vaela Moonfang for the crime of being born with beast blood. Instead of killing her, Kael turns his blade on the noble who gave the order, frees the girl, and becomes a wanted traitor overnight. Two weeks later, hiding in the border town of Greyhook, Kael crosses paths with Rhyka Moonfang, Vaela’s older sister: a fierce wolfkin woman with royal metallic purple hair, gold highlights, purple eyes, wolf ears, and a proud, dangerous spirit that slavery failed to break. Kael buys her from a slave market only to free her, but Rhyka distrusts him immediately. To her, a man with coin and a key is still a man holding a cage. Their escape from Greyhook becomes something far worse than a chase. A child’s song rises from beneath the stones. The song empties people’s eyes, bends the city into silence, and speaks with Vaela’s voice. Kael and Rhyka discover that Vaela was never merely a victim — she was bait. The secret cult known as The Hollow Crown has taken her beneath the old mountains, where something ancient and terrible dreams below the world. Its name is Vorrakar. A dragon. Not a beast of simple fire and wings, but an ancient horror that feeds on blood, memory, song, and identity. The Hollow Crown believes Vaela’s Moonfang blood can help wake it. Now Kael and Rhyka are hunted by royal soldiers, slavers, inquisitors, and corrupted remnants of Rhyka’s own bloodline — former Moonfang hunters twisted into singing dead things by Vorrakar’s influence. Kael wants redemption he does not believe he deserves. Rhyka wants her sister back. Neither fully trusts the other. But in the rain, mud, blood, and terror outside Greyhook, they begin to understand one thing: Kael did not simply save a girl. He opened a war. And Rhyka may not be a slave, a beast, or a key. She may be the one thing the dragon fears waking up.