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Luna Between Alphas: Relationships at the Start

Family Membership Without Care or Equal Treatment

Meet them in the first five chapters See the ebook edition

This opening note focuses on the first paragraphs of chapter 1. The free reading sample contains five complete chapters.

Relationships in the opening

Family Membership Without Care or Equal Treatment

Scarlet stresses that the people mistreating her are her own family, making the absence of care central to the opening. Her comparison with Dawn's permitted rest gives that failure a concrete form, while her account of her father's naming decision reveals how deeply she has absorbed the family's rejection. The reader can attend to the gap between kinship as a label and the recognition or concern that would make it supportive.

When Scarlet calls herself a disgrace, whose judgment is she repeating rather than independently establishing?

Read the scene in chapter 1