Before he was condemned to watch, Starfire was a father, a husband, a Guardian sworn to protect the world the Gods had built. Then Winter broke the rule holding them all in check. One small mercy. One drowning child pulled from a river. It raised a question neither of them could unask: was kindness worth defying the Gods themselves? Starfire followed him anyway. The cost was everything but life itself. Bound into the body of a stag, stripped of almost everything he once was, Starfire is condemned to watch with no end in sight and no promise it will ever change. His children grow old. His descendants forget his name. The world remakes itself again and again while he stands at the tree line, unable to walk through his own front door as a man again. Winter's sentence is worse. Lost to time itself, sealed so deep he cannot feel the centuries pass. But something is stirring. A Wolf Dreamer story, The Star Between spans a thousand years of grief, devotion, and the question of what one act of mercy is truly worth, ending exactly where Wolf Dreamer begins. Read more

The Star Between: A Wolf Dreamer Story
by Ak Leach
First published in 2026 by Fisher King Press
66 pages
ISBN 9781066767342
