Tessa spends her youth worshipping her older brother, the reigning pack Alpha, only to be cast into a freezing mountain gorge to perish when political expediency demands her sacrifice. Granted a miraculous second lease on life, Tessa abandons all filial sentiment. She turns her back on the clan that betrayed her, accepting an arranged marriage proposal from Zane Steele, the feared warlord of the Northern Wolves.
Behind Zane's terrifying reputation as a merciless executioner, Tessa discovers a fiercely devoted protector who secretly loved her from afar for eight years. Zane shields her with unwavering tenderness as her past abusers attempt to drag her back. Rebuilding her courage alongside her formidable husband, Tessa prepares to make her treacherous kin answer for their bloodcrimes.
