WINNER: 3rd Place, 2021 Werewolf Competition [Mature Content] After escaping suicide forest, August Moon finds that she has only gone deeper into the mysteries it holds. Lycans exist. But maybe she is something even stranger... With a clandestine experimental pandemic, a decade-old murder mystery, and a timeless prejudice against strange members within the lycan community all simmering in the periphery of her newfound surroundings, August must fight to discover her own truth alongside a fierce and possessive male who claims to be her mate.
Neoma went on to tell her story to the pack members who were riveted by every gruesome and difficult detail as she relayed how she had served as the scientific lead on the elders' secret team researching alyko around the globe as well as within the pack and plotting their removal.
She explained how her team studied statistical analyses of the genetic makeup of each individual within the pack, determining which mates were most likely to have offspring without wolves and targeting those mate pairs for sabotage when the female became pregnant—another thing the elders were able to determine with the help of Neoma's scientific expertise.