The Border Warden's Feigned Betrothal
A closed-door romantasy of duty and deception

About this book:

When the Grand Duke masses four thousand pikemen at the frozen border, Ambassador's daughter Genevieve Vance knows diplomacy has failed. Her solution is reckless: a feigned betrothal to Garrett Thorne, the scarred, taciturn Warden of the Northern Marches—a man who hangs bandits from willows and considers courtesy a tactical error. It's a lie designed to buy winter, but Duke Ronald's spymaster is riding for the gates, and he reads deception like tracks in fresh snow.

Garrett has spent a decade holding the line with steel and silence; he has no use for court games or southern beauties. But Genevieve knows the price of his garrison's empty granaries, the location of every frozen pass, and exactly how to make a predator look like a protector. As they draft clauses forbidding real affection and choreograph touches meant for an audience, the performance becomes dangerously convincing. His calloused hand on hers sends heat through wool and leather; her sharp tongue disarms him better than any blade.

Trapped in a fortress where every shadow hides an assassin and every courtesy is a calculated move, the line between strategy and surrender blurs. With spring thaw months away and a spymaster testing every glance, Genevieve and Garrett must decide whether the most dangerous lie they've told is the one convincing themselves they don't belong to each other.