The Warden and the Wolf
A Borderlands Romantasy

About this book:

On the knife's-edge border between the Kingdom of Veridia and the lawless Pale, Warden Lynn Alden has one job: seal the mountain passes against the smugglers bleeding the Crown's treasury dry. She's young, sharp, and utterly certain of her duty—until the night the Wolf drops from the cliffs. Rory Vance is legend in the high country: a smuggler king in a wolfskin cloak, as lethal as he is infuriating, and he knows Lynn's name before she draws her blade. When a mercy run for starving villagers masquerades as a moonstone haul, Lynn walks straight into his trap—and into a conspiracy that makes her oath and his outlaw code the only things standing between the borderlands and a mercenary army's slaughter.

Caught in a blizzard of betrayals, Lynn and Rory strike a bargain as fragile as the ice beneath their boots. She needs his mountain sense to survive the Iron Wolves hunting them both; he needs her badge to clear a path through the Crown's blockade. Every shared watchfire and narrow escape fractures the line between captor and captive, duty and desire, until the silver wolf's tooth he left at her throat burns hotter than any brand. But the pass takes what it wants, and the secrets buried in the snow run deeper than either of them know—secrets that will force Lynn to choose between the Crown she swore to serve and the man who makes her feel alive for the first time in her life.

*The Warden and the Wolf* is a slow-burn romantasy where the chemistry crackles like frost on iron, the banter cuts as deep as any blade, and the stakes are nothing less than the soul of the borderlands. For fans of enemies-to-lovers with political teeth, morally gray heroes who'd burn kingdoms for the right woman, and a frozen wilderness that's very much a character in its own right.