THE ASHWOOD COVENANT

An Ancient Bond Between Wolf and Warde

Black Pine Wolves, Book One

Some bonds aren't made. They're inherited.

For three hundred years, an oath has bound the Ashwood wolves to the Warde bloodline — a covenant sealed in blood, sworn to protect, and never once broken. Until now.

Alpha Gideon Ashwood was raised on the old stories: the pact, the price, the promise that one day a daughter of House Warde would return to Black Pine to claim what was hers. He never believed he'd be the one to answer when she came.

Elena Warde came to Black Pine to bury her grandmother and settle an estate she never knew existed — not to inherit a legacy written in wolves, wards, and blood oaths three centuries old. And she certainly didn't expect the pull she feels toward the scarred, silent Alpha who looks at her like she's something ancient and inevitable.

But the covenant was never just a promise between wolf and Warde. It was a warning. Something has been waiting on the other side of that oath — and Elena's return has woken it.

Now Gideon must choose between the duty bound into his blood and the mate fate never asked him to want — while an enemy older than the pact itself moves to break the covena

nt for good.