"The shifting thing isn't exactly graceful on the way back, okay? It's not like I plan to be buck-ass naked in front of—"

An unregistered Alpha shifter locked inside his own brother's golden cage. Feral charm and reckless grins hide a man starved to be seen. By night, he becomes a silent owl haunting Trevan Hall's dark halls, hunting for the one thing the Registry can never give him: to matter. Loyal to Xerxes past reason, resentful of the walls all the same, Quincy is a live wire aging into instincts with nowhere legal to go. Freedom, safety, or being real — pick two.