Before the Ruin
BEFORE HARPER RAYNE WAS PHOENIX'S SPARK
JORDAN PRICE WAS ALREADY IN THE FIRE..
Canyon State University was supposed to be Jordan’s chance to stay reckless, brilliant, and free for a little longer.
Instead, campus life, first love, grief, pack politics, and the crown waiting for him all begin to close in at once.
Jordan Price
before the crown
before the ruin
Dark urban fantasy prequel. Campus beauty, grief, power, and the beginning of everything that will break him open.
July 21, 2026
ABOUT THE SERIES
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BEFORE THE RUIN
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Before the Ruin follows Jordan Price through the version of his life that still passes for ordinary. Canyon State gives him art school, late nights, and the illusion that he still has time.
But grief, family pressure, pack politics, and the relationship that will eventually become one of the deepest wounds in his life are already moving underneath the surface. This is the beginning of the Jordan readers meet later in the Harper Rayne Universe.
ABOUT BOOK 1.5
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Born heir to one of the most powerful shapeshifter bloodlines in the Southwest, Jordan was raised for a crown he never asked for and a world that demanded obedience before mercy.
Reckless and far too powerful for his own good, Jordan spends his youth fighting the weight of his name, the expectations of his throne, and the animal instincts clawing beneath his skin.
Then Malik Varela walks into his life, and for the first time, Jordan wants something that has nothing to do with bloodlines, crowns, or clan law.
Malik should be the one thing Jordan refuses to risk. Instead, he becomes the one thing Jordan cannot walk away from.
But no heir outruns the crown forever.
Before the gallery. Before Harper. Before the ruin.
There was Jordan Price, a crown soaked in fire, and a choice that changed everything.