Fealty of the Frostwright

Runa Frostwright was promised to Ovid Hall before she could walk — and promised to one wolf in particular before she could read. Then he refused her. Publicly. On the front steps, by name, in front of the whole school. Something in a refused bond doesn't break; it distributes. Two more wolves feel the snap, and neither of them is sorry. Callum, who watched it happen and has been standing in the courtyard every night since, waiting to be allowed to make it up. Ivar, who has spent six years carrying messages for three families who won't give his own family a seat — and who knows every secret in the Hall. And Kai, who did the refusing, and can't seem to stop circling back. Runa doesn't want any of them. Ovid Hall has other plans. If she leaves before spring, the Frostwright lands are forfeit. She isn't leaving. She's rewriting the terms.