The Blind Claim
Samantha Hale once lived an ordinary life in the human world, ordinarily except for the constant sense that she never truly belonged. Found as an abandoned infant near a forest border and raised by a loving human couple, she grew up blind to her origins yet strangely attuned to the unseen. Her senses were sharper than most; her instincts too accurate to ignore. But the truth behind her unusual existence remained hidden… until Morris found her.
Morris was a werewolf, charming on the surface, dangerously obsessive beneath. He was fascinated by Samantha, drawn to something he couldn’t immediately define. When she resisted his advances and tried to escape his tightening grip, his obsession turned violent. The night she fled him changed her life forever. Morris, enraged that she would choose freedom over him, clawed out her eyes in the forest, claiming that if she couldn’t look at him with love, she shouldn’t look at anyone at all.
Blinded, bleeding, and running on pure terror, Samantha stumbled deep into the forbidden wildland…the territory of the Alpha King of werewolves: Zoro Darkfang.
Zoro was everything Morris wasn’t … powerful, calculating, feared yet fair. He carried the burden of leadership, haunted by a slow-burning war with Morris, his former beta turned traitor. When Samantha literally crashed into his life and arm… something ancient stirred inside him. He couldn’t ignore the instinctual pull he felt toward her. Yet he saw her as human and helpless, a fragile soul ruined by one of his own. His first instinct was to protect … and hide her.
But soon, Zoro begins to realize Samantha isn’t helpless at all.
Even without eyes, she sees things others can’t … whispers of magic, traces of aura, echoes of souls. She senses a darkness coming… and she feels it inside herself. The wolves around her react to her presence… not with pity, but awe. Her scent is royal. Her wounded face carries beneath the skin a faint shimmering mark, one Zoro recognizes from stories told only in secret:
The Eclipse Wolf.
A supernatural lineage believed extinct.
A wolf that exists between light and shadow, life and death.
Samantha is the last of them… the heir to a power great enough to either unite or destroy every pack on the continent.
And both Zoro and Morris want her.
Zoro, to protect her.
Morris… to claim her.
Morris is convinced that Samantha is his destined mate… not because of love, but because of ambition. If he owns the Eclipse Wolf, he owns fate itself. He launches relentless attacks on neighboring packs, killing dozens and leaving one survivor each time… always with the same message:
“Bring me Samantha. Alone.”
His dominance becomes a blood-written ultimatum.
Samantha, meanwhile, battles fear, guilt, and a terrifying transformation inside her. As the Eclipse mark awakens, she experiences visions of a giant wolf woven from moonlight and darkness. She feels her body changing, senses sharpening, something monstrous and magnificent waiting beneath her grief.
She hates what Morris did to her.
She fears what she’s becoming.
And yet, she needs answers.
Zoro tries to help her control this new power, guiding her through the rage and shadows looming inside. Along the way, their connection deepens… from protector and victim to something undeniable. But love only intensifies the danger. Prophecies begin resurfacing:
“When the Eclipse Wolf awakens, a king must fall.”
Morris believes Zoro is that king.
Zoro wonders if he might instead be destined to die by Samantha’s awakening hand.
The climax erupts when Morris stages his deadliest attack yet, abducting innocent pack members and forcing Zoro’s warriors into slaughter. He sends a mangled survivor to deliver the final demand:
“Samantha walks into my territory, or their blood never stops flowing.”
Samantha refuses to let more lives be lost because of her. Despite Zoro’s furious objections, she makes her choice. She goes. Alone. Blind but guided by something older than eyesight, de