The Alpha's Cold Bride

Astrid Lofgren arrives at Frosthold in a bridal sledge, the price of a treaty that ends thirty years of war. On the night of the banquet, the mate bond snaps between her and the Alpha, Eirik Grey, and he rejects it before the entire hall. He will not take a bride he did not choose. Bond or no bond. Treaty or no treaty. The marriage holds. The bed stays cold. Astrid does not weep. She sets about running the keep — the granary, the kitchens, the southern shepherds her husband has fought for a decade. The pack begins to prefer her. Eirik begins to watch. When a raider from her old lands comes to collect a debt, Astrid stands between the raider and Eirik's sister. And in the infirmary afterward, the cold man finally speaks. She has conditions. She has always had conditions.