Marriage of Ashes

Elise Duvall watched her pack burn her mother at the stake for a bond they called a crime. She survived anyway, and came back ten years later with a deed in her hand, a marriage contract she wrote herself, and a plan. Bram, the new alpha of Widow's Hill, needs a married consort to block the sale of the pack's land to a logging conglomerate. Elise needs a husband to walk into the council chamber with her and watch the elders face the truth. Neither expects the bond. Neither expects the way the old language her mother used starts coming back to her in her husband's mouth. When the elders move against her, Bram chooses her over the pack that raised him—and Elise chooses revenge, then mercy, then him. A dark captive lycan romance with a fake marriage, an old crime, and a forest reclaimed from the ashes.