I've been free of the Shadowmen since I was ten and escaped Shadowmaster and Whip during my graduation ceremony. I went from a captive, forced to learn everything about being an assassin to...To me.Someone I never really knew.A broken shifter, unable to shift into the wolf that I should be from the moment my pack saved me from the raging surf.And now I'm at the academy, forced to be here for four years along with other supernaturals as we go through our maturing.Except I'm surrounded by Shadowmen.At every turn, the path ahead of me gets narrower and narrower, making me fight and push for one more step forward as I try to hide who and what I am from discovery.Our third year here has gone downhill from day one, and I can't seem to stop it. I'm strapped in an out of control rocket sled, heading for a collision that may very well strip the shadows from me and notify the most feared man in the world that I still exist.Can I make it through?Surviving in the shadows isn't a foregone conclusion. It's taken everything I've learned to make it this far, and my options are being stripped away one after another, leaving me on a forced path into the light.Which means I either become who and what I was born to be, or I watch everyone I know and love pay the price.And that's something I simply won't allow.