Amber Eyes Upon Me

"I saw my opening—a sliver of exposed flank as the bear reared to crush a younger wolf. I didn't just lunge. I launched." - "Fang"

"I saw my opening—a sliver of exposed flank as the bear reared to crush a younger wolf. I didn't jus

"He didn't reach for a weapon. He didn't snarl. He simply looked at me, his gaze steady despite the agony. It wasn't the pleading look of the dying. It was the defiant stare of a creature that refused to be broken." - "Shattered"

"He didn't reach for a weapon. He didn't snarl. He simply looked at me, his gaze steady despite the

"I didn’t understand the sudden, violent intensity of the devotion rising in my chest for this creature—this beautiful, wild woman who had plucked me from the drifts and offered me the trust of her own identity." - "Sins"

"I didn’t understand the sudden, violent intensity of the devotion rising in my chest for this creat

"In that cramped, orange-lit dome, the world outside ceased to exist. ... There was only the steady rise and fall of our chests and the heat radiating between us. A localized sun that pushed back the blue-sleep." - "Heart-Glow"

"In that cramped, orange-lit dome, the world outside ceased to exist. ... There was only the steady

"There, nearly swallowed by the tree's growth, were jagged carvings—notches of time and a faded scrap of red ribbon that hung like a dried leaf. It was a human mark, a ghost of the girl I had been, and the one person who had dared to see her." - "Willows"

two girls sitting under a tree tied with a red ribbon and holding carvings they shared

“You think I chose this?” Her voice didn’t rise. “You think the cold asks permission before it takes what it wants?" - "Scars"

Anja tries to explain.