\\Mature Content Warning\\ 17+ for language and sexual content. Five years ago, twenty-three-year-old panther shifter Sera Czedar left her home and her newly mated groom in a humiliating position after a mating ceremony gone wrong. She built a new life for herself in Varselles, the City of Outcasts where shifters exiled from their clans in the Seven Kingdoms can go for sanctuary. Five years ago, panther shifter Levian Grayson was abandoned on the bonding bed by his bride, Sera. After years of tracking her, he arrives in Varselles, intent on staking his claim on her once and for all, even if it means hauling her over his shoulder just to make sure that happens. Sera has always known her homecoming would eventually catch up with her one day. The one thing she can’t bear to do is hurt Levian, which will happen as soon as he finds out the reason she left him. Is she ready to take that path? Most of all, will Levian still want her when the truth comes out?

This story follows Levian and Sera as they adapt to life as mates following the events in Homecoming, and working to fix their relationship. As much as Levian wants to completely claim Sera as his mate, he holds himself back, choosing to wait until he is certain nothing stands between them. Just him and his mate. Sera, whose life revolved around fighting, is a little Varselles-sick, and wrestles the urge to tackle anyone in sight for a good fight. Fighting in The Rings is strictly forbidden in Kórskan and the penalties for disobeying are high. Then life takes an abrupt shift, when a group of Rogues arrive in Kórskan in search for the journals. Soon the uses for the Cloaked Devices are revealed. It gets worse when members of the Rhine Clan start disappearing, and Sera is forced way too soon to step up as the new Alpha. Sera and Levian face a challenge that will either make them or break them, if not kill them and everyone else they love.