Bonding Day will decide Y/N’s future. Every Sorcerer must choose their first Shifter, awaken their true magical power, and prepare for an academy-wide test only one month away. With money, recognition, and their future careers at stake, Y/N must choose between eight very different Shifters—from an S-Tier dragon to a scarred spider who despises Sorcerers. Meanwhile, Y/N’s jealous rival Seraphine is determined to prove that no matter who Y/N chooses, she will have the stronger bond.
Crown Prince Katsuki Bakugou has never been touched. Cursed since birth, anyone who makes contact with him is struck by a violent explosion—leaving the notoriously abrasive prince isolated and secretly desperate for the affection he pretends not to need. Until a servant accidentally bumps into him at a royal ball. Nothing happens. Y/N hurriedly apologizes and disappears into the crowd, completely unaware that she has just become the first person Katsuki has ever touched without hurting. Now the kingdom’s untouchable prince is determined to find the mysterious servant again—and once he does, a lifetime without affection has made him reluctant to ever let her out of his reach. The royal court, however, has other plans for its future king.
Y/N has spent years enduring a broken bond with Darius, an A-Tier panther Shifter who despises her, refuses the closeness she needs to survive, and secretly spends his nights with the beautiful Seraphine. When Darius finally turns his claws on Y/N, she does the one thing he never believed she had the courage to do: she gives him to Seraphine. Weak from the Withering and desperate for a new bond, Y/N visits a Shifter adoption agency and is offered eight unwanted, difficult, or unusual Shifters. She expects simply to find someone willing to keep her alive. Instead, she may finally discover what it means to be wanted by the Shifter she chooses. And just as Y/N begins to heal, Darius realizes being free of her isn’t what he wanted after all.
Sent into a deadly winter forest for a crime her sister committed, Y/N spends her eighteenth birthday trapped in a cave as the Withering slowly takes hold. Just when she believes she has been left to die, an enormous white wolf finds her—Caelan, an S-Tier Frost Wolf and Crown Prince of the hidden Shifter kingdom of Sylvaris. His people despise Sorcerer bonds, but saving Y/N requires Caelan to form the very bond he was raised to fear. Now permanently bound together, they must decide where they belong when the storm finally ends: with the family that abandoned Y/N, or in a kingdom that may never accept its future king’s Sorcerer.
Y/N stows away aboard a ship to escape her old life—only to discover too late that she chose a pirate vessel. When the crew finds her, she’s chained to the mast as punishment. Hours later, battle erupts, the ship sinks, and everyone abandons her to drown with it. But something is waiting in the darkness below. Y/N fled to the sea searching for freedom. She never expected to find it in the arms of the monster beneath it.
Moving from South Korea to Japan for your dream job was supposed to be your fresh start. Instead, you find yourself isolated in an unfamiliar city and quietly targeted by coworkers who know you’re too afraid of losing your job to fight back. Then one rainy night, you make the questionable decision to intervene when you find a bloodied stranger being beaten in an alley. That stranger is Katsuki Bakugou—a foul-mouthed, violent low-level gangster who has no interest in becoming a better man. After deciding he owes you for helping him, Katsuki appoints himself your reluctant protector, and an unlikely friendship begins between two people who couldn’t be more different. You don’t belong in his world. He certainly doesn’t belong in yours. But somewhere between late-night convenience stores, bruised knuckles, missed trains, and Katsuki waiting outside your office every evening, the line between protecting you and loving you begins to disappear.
