Slave To The Bronze Wolf

The empire is dying.The granaries are empty. The cities are burning. And Princess Samira has become the last coin her father has left to spend.Promised to a king she has never met in exchange for grain that may never arrive, Samira is sent north under military escort through a world already coming apart.Her escort is Tarek.The Bronze Wolf.A mercenary who sold a city to the enemy. A commander who murdered his own superior officers. A man feared across the Hittite frontier for surviving every disaster the collapse can invent.Samira knows exactly what he is.She wants him anyway.When their convoy is destroyed in a mountain ambush, the marriage contract burns with it.No alliance.No dowry.No future.Just Samira and Tarek, stranded three hundred miles from the coast with hostile territory between them and the Black Fleet gathering the survivors of the old world.To stay alive, they adopt a dangerous disguise: master and slave.At first it is strategy.Then it becomes something neither of them can fully control.As kingdoms fall around them and the road grows bloodier with every mile, Samira discovers she is changing. The princess who once translated trade agreements in a palace archive is becoming something harder-a woman capable of violence, sacrifice, and choices the old world would never forgive.Tarek is changing too.For six years he has survived by serving no one, caring for no one, and keeping grief locked behind a door he never intended to open again.Samira forces that door open.Now the journey west may cost them far more than their lives.Slave to the Bronze Wolf is the second novel in the Age of Ash series, an epic historical romance set during the Bronze Age Collapse, where empires die, civilizations are born, and love survives only because it is worth the risk.