The Bully of Ironwood Hall

Ironwood Hall breeds the most powerful bloodlines in the country, and Wren Ashcombe is here on a scholarship her imprisoned father is a cautionary tale about. Caspian Vale is the boy who has made her first four years a study in humiliation. What nobody at Ironwood knows is that a ritual bound them to each other when they were nine, and in their final year the bond surfaces — proving that the boy who ruins her and the girl who refuses to break were made for each other by people who meant to use them. Wren wants to cut it. Caspian wants to keep her safe from it. Ironwood's headmistress wants the friction, because the school has been feeding on mated pairs for generations and Wren's file is in the ledger, initials and all. To break Ironwood, Wren will have to finish what the school started. She offers Caspian a choice: be her mate, or be in her way. He's done being anyone's favorite son.