THE ICE WOLF

Claire Beaumont YA&Teenfiction

Seventeen-year-old Adrien Agreste is the star center of Blackridge Academy’s hockey team—fast, fearless, and impossible to stop on the ice but behind his perfect control is a dangerous secret: Adrien is a werewolf struggling to hide what he truly is. In his world, exposure means exile… or worse and control is everything.That control begins to shatter when Marinette Rossi enters his life.
Marinette is a student journalist assigned to document Blackridge’s hockey team during their playoff season. She expects arrogance, drama, and overhyped athletes. What she doesn’t expect is Adrien—quiet, intense, and strangely impossible to read. Worse, she keeps noticing things that don’t make sense… his eyes changing under arena lights, players backing away from him in fear, and instincts in her own body reacting whenever he’s near.
Then she learns the truth. Werewolves exist and Adrien is one of them but the discovery came with consequences. Rival packs are closing in, dangerous secrets are surfacing, and Marinette becomes a target simply for knowing too much. As pressure builds on and off the ice, Adrien is forced into an impossible choice: protect his pack’s secret, secure his future in hockey, or protect the girl he’s slowly losing control over because Marinette isn’t just involved in his life anymore. She’s bonded to it and once a mate bond awakens, nothing stays hidden for long.In a world of ice, instinct, and lies, control is the first thing to break and love is the most dangerous instinct of all.

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