A Tether of Iron: An Enemies to Lovers Wolf Shifter Romance

She has spent her whole life standing in front of other people. Now she is the price. Sygni of Greywater is the blade at her pack's door: first at the ford, last to sit, and the only wolf in the valley who has never once asked anyone for anything. So when the Warden Council sanctions a debt her pack cannot pay and sets a life against it, she does the only thing she knows how to do. She gives herself. Forty days as a hostage in the hall of Blackthorn: the rival pack that has hunted her people for six generations, and whose raiders killed her mother while she watched from behind a door. Her keeper is the last man in the world she can afford to want. Halvard is Blackthorn's terms-keeper, the son of the raider who made her an orphan. He is also the stranger her Tether snapped to across forty miles of winter, before either of them had ever laid eyes on the other. He will not touch her. He will not feed her, warm her, or lift one finger for her. He sets a single rule and holds it while it nearly kills her: Nothing comes to you that you do not ask for. Out loud. Forty days. Two packs one grievance from war. A Warden who never threatens, never lies, and is right about the law every single time. And a bond neither of them consented to, tightening every hour toward a morning when the terms say her life answers the debt. Halvard will be the man holding them. He would burn the world before he let it have her. She has expressly forbidden him to try. A complete standalone romance with an earned happily-ever-after. Enemies to lovers, fated mates, rival packs, forced proximity, and a consent-forward slow burn. Open-door, medium heat. Book Two of Wolves of Ironwood, a connected series in which every book is a new couple and a complete HEA.