Newborns change everything—even when they haven’t arrived yet.

The birth of a baby raven is expected any day now, and Ghost Mountain Pack is kind of falling apart, or at least their dominants are. A tiny ball of fluff calls on some of their most powerful instincts—and slices into their deepest wounds.

Rio knows it’s his job as sentinel to walk alongside those dominants as they struggle.

Which would be easier if he wasn’t one of them.