Can an unlikely friendship save the day? Arara's ears flatten to her head and her lips pull back into a snarl. Kerka chuckles and tries to kick her, but Arara hears the thought coming and dodges easily. The rest of the hunting party, classmates their own age, snicker and wag their tails in amusement. She longs to run away, but today is special. Their hunting trial. Leave, and she'll still be considered a pup and be stuck here another year at least. Prince Sels walks at the head of a grand procession up to the stage where a dozen furry pups wait. It's so cold he can't even get his flowers to open. Sels longs for the hot humid plains of the capital city. He can't go home until he finds at least one candidate, yet his lack of magic means he can't feel their potential. One pup of the group catches his eye. Tiny and white, she looks as out of place as he feels, and he feels a jolt of connection with her. But what kind of difference can one...

After seeing the atrocities committed by those in power, Prince Se'ls is determined to set things right. Defied his rightful seat on the ruling council by the elder Speaker because of his untamed wild magic, Se'ls will have to find another way and he has just the thing: marriage to a commoner.Secrets of the past have a way of haunting the future, something Arara, newly bonded of Prince Se'ls, knows firsthand. But Arara's search for her heritage uncovers more questions than answers.Summer will end with an eclipse of the sun, said to herald dark times. The empire is besieged by a storm of epic proportions; the prophesy holds the only answers, Arara and Se'ls the keys. If they are strong enough to use them.

Wet snow sprays from Arara's paws as she bounces after her father, who is checking his trap lines. Falling snow from the trees platters around her. In the distance branches crack and fall, broken by the weight of the melting snow.She's supposed to be at school today, but she convinced him to take her hunting instead. School is horrible anyway. This is so much better. The warm spring air brings her spirits back up that had been brought low by schoolyard bullies.Her father's ahead when there's a loud crack right above her head. Arara freezes, staring up at a giant branch falling right towards her. She screams, but the branch stops falling inches from her upturned snout. Hovering there, weightless. Held, she realizes, by her. This changes everything.Snow Flower is a Prequel Novella to Flower's Fang.