Nine wolves on the far bank. Two rifles on the ridge. One bridge. And a folder with my name on it.
I’m not a bride. I’m the price of peace, signed over in repayment for spilled blood.
Then their alpha takes my arm because the law dictates it, and every part of me surges toward him.
Hollis Teague is thirty-four, battle-scarred, dark-eyed, and the man who will preside over the hearing that decides my fate.
He’s supposed to report every rule I break.
Instead, he gives me his heater, takes the washed-out side of the road so I walk on the safe ground that holds, and quietly protects me from a pack that wants me dead.
There’s only one problem.
Ten weeks ago, I put his cousin in the ground.
Now three hundred wolves are waiting to watch the Kestrel woman come apart.
An elder has already laid claim to my life, and Greywater law forbids Hollis from speaking in my defense.
But our wolves know what his pack can never find out.
We’re mates.
Except something keeps happening between us.
Every time the bond sparks, it dies.
And no wolf who crossed the bridge has kept their bond in three generations.
I can survive the hearing. I can survive whatever the elder has planned for me.
What I can’t survive is telling Hollis the truth: if I could re-do that night, I’d kill his cousin all over again.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
I’m not a bride. I’m the price of peace, signed over in repayment for spilled blood.
Then their alpha takes my arm because the law dictates it, and every part of me surges toward him.
Hollis Teague is thirty-four, battle-scarred, dark-eyed, and the man who will preside over the hearing that decides my fate.
He’s supposed to report every rule I break.
Instead, he gives me his heater, takes the washed-out side of the road so I walk on the safe ground that holds, and quietly protects me from a pack that wants me dead.
There’s only one problem.
Ten weeks ago, I put his cousin in the ground.
Now three hundred wolves are waiting to watch the Kestrel woman come apart.
An elder has already laid claim to my life, and Greywater law forbids Hollis from speaking in my defense.
But our wolves know what his pack can never find out.
We’re mates.
Except something keeps happening between us.
Every time the bond sparks, it dies.
And no wolf who crossed the bridge has kept their bond in three generations.
I can survive the hearing. I can survive whatever the elder has planned for me.
What I can’t survive is telling Hollis the truth: if I could re-do that night, I’d kill his cousin all over again.
Genre: Paranormal Romance