The Heiress's Wolf Sins

Lady Sabine Lambourne has one season to marry, one dead mother, and one condition in her will: her daughter may never marry a Crane. Hollis Crane has one bankrupt shipping fortune, one fae curse inherited from four generations of male ancestors, and one wolf that has refused to shift since he was seventeen — because shifting requires proximity to a mate, and proximity would ruin them both. A carriage accident and a Christmas snowstorm put Sabine in his house, the wolf on the floor of his study, and their families' three-generational feud on the dining table. Their solution is suitably cynical: her name for his fortune, a business arrangement, and a year to end it cleanly. London has other ideas. The wolf won't let her waltz with anyone else, a rival suitor turns out to have hunted shifters for a living, and the dowager knows exactly what a wolf-born heir is worth to a blackmailer. The season ends with the debt paid in full — not in a ballroom, in a snowbound cottage, with a ledger balanced in Sabine's hand and a baby on her hip.