The Serpent and the Silver Wolf
Blurb
She’d lived hundreds of lives, and it was always the same. A world on the edge of annihilation. The desperate struggle to save it. Death. Destruction. Then on to the next. But what would happen if a past life collided with her present in ways she never expected?
When Aimee arrives in Hi Haven with no family, no past, she’s seemingly just another young shinobi among many. But beneath her foul-mouthed exterior lies a tangle of secrets, darker and more dangerous than anyone could imagine. Beyond the Mission looming over her, is her connection to Kazuma, Hi Haven’s most feared traitor and a man she may have loved in another lifetime, a connection she doesn’t fully remember until she’s faced with the monster he became in her absence.
Originally assigned to Kiba’s Wolf Squad, she spends her first four years in Hi Haven fighting and training alongside three other young Tanshi as they learn to use Mana, a mysterious power honed by ancient ninja to fuel their techniques. If only she could forget the illicit encounter with her handsome, silver-haired Squad Leader the night before Squads were formed.
But she can never forget that she’s there for a reason, and soon war and an ancient enemy long thought dead, threaten to engulf the world. When the fifth Elemental falls, only the Great Phoenix, housed within one of Aimee’s squadmates, stands between the enemy and the power to destroy everything. With time running out, Aimee makes a decision she can’t take back, despite her growing love for Kiba. By freeing Kazuma from the enemy, where he’s trapped in a torturous state between life and death, she sets off a chain of events that stuns both her closest friends and the entire Allied Army.
As her past collides with her present, Aimee must confront the haunting pull of Kazuma, the traitor she once loved and betrayed in another life if she has any hope of untangling the web of deception driving this war. And if she wants anyone to survive the coming apocalypse, she must decide where her true loyalties and feelings lie—and what she’s willing to sacrifice.
Come for the secrets, sacrifice, and second chances; stay for the steamy tension!