Claimed in the Wildwood

They turned Ilsa out at the edge of the Wildwood with a week's bread and a coat, because she wouldn't bond a village boy with a strong arm and a small soul. She expected the wolves to take her. She expected a long and quiet cold. She got three alphas who live outside the village and want nothing from her. Torv, whose hands remember more of bear than of man. Halden, who shapes iron and never says too little. Osip, who traps, and laughs, and hasn't slept through a night since the year the snow took someone he loved. They build her a cabin. They teach her to snare. They keep her warm and refuse her heat, and she falls — slowly, and then all at once. When the village comes to drag her back, three alphas and one midwife decide who lives in the Wildwood.