The Last Soul Among Wolves

By Melissa Caruso

Book Overview

The Last Soul Among Wolves is the brilliant second installment in Melissa Caruso's Echo Archives series, a whip-smart adventure fantasy featuring cursed relics, sapphic romance, and a magical murder mystery.

All Kembral Thorne wants is to finish her maternity leave in peace. But when her best friend asks for help, she can't say no, even if it means a visit to a run-down mansion on an isolated island for a will reading. She arrives to find an unexpected reunion of her childhood friends--plus her once-rival, now-girlfriend Rika Nonesuch, there on a mysterious job. Then the will is read, and everything goes sideways.

Eight potential heirs, half of them Kem's oldest friends.

Three cursed relics.

The rules: one by one, the heirs will die.

The prize for the lone survivor: A wish. And wishes are always bad business.

To save their friends, Kem and Rika must race against the clock and descend into other realities once more. But the mansion is full of old secrets and new schemes, and soon the game becomes far more dangerous--and more personal--than they could have imagined.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316303941
• ISBN13: 9780316303941
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Orbit
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.4" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Back to the Echoes again!

You would think after working so hard at the party to keep everyone alive through the echoes and then being responsible to properly name the new year to avoid catastrophe, that Kembral Thorne deserves the right to relax for a bit and take care of her daughter. Nope! Kembral is such a good person that of course she goes to the aid of childhood friends who have gotten themselves stuck with a curse that will kill all but one. Kembral is amazing but realistic and I think that is why she is so likeable. And what is a good story without Rika Nonesuch, Cat with a bit extra and while she has her own goals, the way she and Kembral complement each other and when they work together, nothing is completely out of reach! More Echo traveling and yes, sadly there is death, human greed, more about Empyreans, and a continuing of the relationship of Kem and Rika! Plus other returning characters, like Jaycel (who is also awesome!) and a couple not so welcome ones though it makes for a wonderful tale with just the right dash of adventure, romance, heartbreak, and a dragon as a babysitter! This is a great series and I love the world that Melissa Caruso has made with all the Echoes and what dwells within, looking for something on the Prime level and the brave people, like the Hounds, battle to keep the balance between the levels. I cannot wait to see what happens next and wish all happiness to Kem and Rika!