Rejected Moon — A Rejected-Mate Werewolf Romance

There is a particular cruelty in being told, your whole life, that the moon will choose you — and then being raised to expect that she will choose you last.

Rejected Moon is a serialized werewolf romance audiobook, written by Mia. New episodes daily.

I did not sleep, and the eyes did not leave, and somewhere in the long cold middle of the night I stopped being afraid of them and started being something more dangerous, which was curious.

Rejected Moon is a serialized werewolf romance audiobook, written by Mia. New episodes daily.

I did what Mara told me. I went home, and I locked my door, and I told no one what I had felt — which was easy, because there was no one to tell.

Rejected Moon is a serialized werewolf romance audiobook, written by Mia. New episodes daily.

There is a kind of courage that is really only the refusal to let other people pay for what you are. It is not the brave sort. It does not feel like bravery from the inside. It feels like the only door left in a burning house.

Rejected Moon is a serialized werewolf romance audiobook, written by Mia. New episodes daily.

I came back to myself on my knees in the dead circle, and the first thing I understood was that the morning had changed colour.

Rejected Moon is a serialized werewolf romance audiobook, written by Mia. New episodes daily.

I had never in my life been further from Greywater than the spring behind the leaning rock, and so the journey east was, among everything else it was, the first time I ever saw the world.

Rejected Moon is a serialized werewolf romance audiobook, written by Mia. New episodes daily.

The Speaker taught me my own power the way you teach a child to handle a blade — by first making absolutely certain I was afraid of it.

Rejected Moon is a serialized werewolf romance audiobook, written by Mia. New episodes daily.

They came with the dawn, the way the worst things do, and the last free city in the world met them with everything it had, which was not going to be enough, and everyone on both sides knew it.

Rejected Moon is a serialized werewolf romance audiobook, written by Mia. New episodes daily.

For three days after I woke the end of the world, nothing happened, and that was the most frightening thing the Severed ever did to me — because I have since learned that the oldest predators don't lunge. They wait, and they let you feel them waiting, and they let the waiting do the work a lunge can't.

Rejected Moon is a serialized werewolf romance audiobook, written by Mia. New episodes daily.

We rode for Harrowmere at dawn, because the Speaker said the risen would still be there — the Severed's dead don't wander far from where they're made until they've finished unmaking everything warm within reach, and Harrowmere had been a small village, and there was not much left in it to unmake.

Rejected Moon is a serialized werewolf romance audiobook, written by Mia. New episodes daily.

The Nightreach council met again the night we came back from Harrowmere, and this time they did not bother to pretend they weren't afraid of me.

Rejected Moon is a serialized werewolf romance audiobook, written by Mia. New episodes daily.

I read my mother's book through the night, in the deepest cave, by Mara's failing fire, and somewhere around the worst hour of it I stopped being only myself and started being the last living end of a grief three hundred years long.

Rejected Moon is a serialized werewolf romance audiobook, written by Mia. New episodes daily.

The risen came up into the scattered pack's hidden fold at moonrise, and they did not attack, and that was how I knew everything had changed.

Rejected Moon is a serialized werewolf romance audiobook, written by Mia. New episodes daily.

We struck north for the high pass three days after Mara died, because that was where they'd buried Lark, and because the world had started to end faster than I was ready for.

Rejected Moon is a serialized werewolf romance audiobook, written by Mia. New episodes daily.

We came up into the high pass on the ninth day, and the snow was pink, exactly as Mara had said it would be — not bloody, nothing so simple, but a faint rose stain deep in the white, three hundred years old, the color of a sister's sacrifice that the mountain had never quite been able to forget.

Rejected Moon is a serialized werewolf romance audiobook, written by Mia. New episodes daily.

Sere stood aside.

Rejected Moon is a serialized werewolf romance audiobook, written by Mia. New episodes daily.

I told her the truth, because I am my mother's daughter, and because the dark had spent three hundred years feeding on the kind lies people tell to keep the unbearable at a comfortable distance, and I would not give it one more mouthful.

Rejected Moon is a serialized werewolf romance audiobook, written by Mia. New episodes daily.

Leaving the seam was the hardest thing I had done since walking out of Greywater, and I had walked out of Greywater leaving the only home I'd ever known burning behind me, so I knew the shape of hard partings, and this was worse.

Rejected Moon is a serialized werewolf romance audiobook, written by Mia. New episodes daily.

We began where any sane impossibility begins: small, and close to home, with people who already half-trusted me, to find out whether the thing the founders buried could be made to work at all before I went and staked the world on it.

Rejected Moon is a serialized werewolf romance audiobook, written by Mia. New episodes daily.