Lena Meyer has had enough of elves and wolves and everything that goes with them. She wants to study, to finally be normal after her messed-up youth with an eating disorder, and to see in her foster brother Noel only the brother, not the secret prince of the elves. But then she comes across a dangerous book in her student dorm, her roommates don't all turn out to be human, and suddenly Lena isn't even sure to what extent she's still herself.

Lena wants to live is the eighth book of the series "Of Elves and Wolves" and the first of the Lena arc. Books should be read in order.