Blood Trial: A Dark Reverse Harem Wolf Shifter Academy Romance

By Vesper Wolfe

I came to the academy feral and barefoot.
I didn't come looking for a pack. I didn't even know I was a wolf.

Three days before, I was a normal girl pumping gas in Montana. Then my bones cracked apart in a parking lot and I woke up on four legs with no idea how to become human again.

The scouts who found me said I was special. A hybrid the packs hunted to extinction four hundred years ago. One who can absorb any pack's magic through blood, shift into forms that shouldn't exist, and do the one thing every alpha in the world fears most: break a mate bond.

They dragged me to the oldest shifter academy on the continent and dropped me into a war I didn't start.

Four pack heirs. Four rivals fighting for the title. And every one of them has a reason to want me gone:

Torrin - the heir whose blood magic burns where he touches me, and who made it his personal mission to drive me out.
Reid - the soldier who offered to train me, then carved runes into my skin that neither of us can take back.
Declan - the wild card who walks with the dead and looked at me like I was the first living thing that ever made him feel warm.
Kieran - the shadow wolf who never speaks, who had been protecting me from the dark long before I knew his name.

I told myself I could survive the pit fights, the pack politics, the academy that wanted to cage me.

I told myself the pull I felt toward all four of them was just instinct. Just the wolf. But when the first mate bond ignited, and the pack council declared me an existential threat, I realized the truth:

I wasn't the weapon they feared. I was the one thing the packs couldn't kill, couldn't cage, and couldn't stop wanting.

Blood Trial is a dark paranormal academy reverse harem romance featuring a bully-to-devotion alpha, a silent obsessive protector, fated mates, blood sport, and a cliffhanger ending. This is Book 1 of 5 in a dark wolf shifter academy series. The full series concludes with a guaranteed happily-ever-after.

Perfect for readers who love:
- Bully romance that breaks into dark devotion
- Wolf shifter academies with brutal pack hierarchies
- Why choose / reverse harem with four obsessive alphas
- Fated mates who fight the bond before surrendering
- Touch her and die protectiveness
- Tournament arcs with blood-soaked stakes
- Enemies to lovers with real teeth
- Slow-burn tension that combusts
- Morally gray heroes worth surrendering to
- A series HEA earned the hard way

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GZJWNTWQ
• ISBN13: 9798195494230
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 542 Pages
• Weight: 1.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"