Surviving the Alpha Trials

Ravyn Okonkwo didn't apply to Cinderhall. She was conscripted — the sacrificial outsider the academy slots into the Alpha Trials every year to make the numbers work. Twelve weeks. One winner. Everybody else goes home in a box. She survives week one by cheating. Week two, three competitors start keeping her alive anyway. A lion frontrunner who wants her as a weapon. A jackal duelist who wants her as a partner. And a physician who wants her alive for reasons he won't say. Then Ravyn finds the cage under the arena. The trials don't crown a leader. The trials feed a beast, and the council has been doing it since the founding. She can win the throne. Or she can burn the rite down in front of twelve packs — and bind herself to three men the council outlawed her whole life. A full-length reverse harem shifter academy romance. First in series.