High above a kingdom built on white stone terraces and flowering courtyards, Princess Eleni is known less for her title and more for her presence—soft-spoken, observant, and endlessly patient. While her royal family governs through rigid tradition, Eleni spends her days tending to the infirmary, mediating disputes among servants, and quietly defying expectations by believing that kindness can change even the most stubborn hearts.
Medea runs an illegal street racing crew out of a grimy after-hours auto shop on the edge of the city. She’s infamous locally—reckless, arrogant, impossible to control, constantly in trouble for racing debts and property damage. Everyone assumes she’s all ego and adrenaline…
When Eleni finds her, Medea is no longer the enormous wolf that had been moving through the forest hours earlier. But the evidence of it is everywhere.
Thousands of miles from shore, suspended in the crushing darkness of the deep ocean, the research vessel feels less like a laboratory and more like a drifting world unto itself. WLW !
The city is changing faster than anyone can keep up with. Jazz spills into the streets, old families lose their influence, new fortunes appear overnight, and everyone is chasing some version of a better life.
Sielle and Eleni have the kind of relationship that makes everyone around them deeply confused about whether they are: academic rivals, best friends, emotionally codependent, flirting, or actively plotting each other’s psychological destruction. The answer is unfortunately “all of the above.”