Being 18 comes with the usual, parties, heartbreak, new love, an essential dread for the future. However, for Astra Alder that isn't where it stops. In this world you don't connect or shift with your wolf until you're 21. You don't get a mate bond until 22. Astra gets both! Fortunately or unfortunately Astra has come into both her wolf and her mate early and she is still trying to figure out what that means. Hoping for a calm, relatively normal life gets thrown out the window as research shows that Astra has a chance at becoming the first female Alpha in their pack since 500 years ago. With encouragement from those she loves and pressure from an unknown dark force Astra has no choice but to participate in a pack leader competition. Can't she just worry about the sexual tension with her mate first?!