The Bone Alpha's Fourth Bride

The night her fated mate rejects her in front of three hundred wolves, Tamsin Vale learns she is not being cast out of Saltfen. She has been sold. Her pack owes the northern hold of Marrowgate a bride, and the last three brides of Evander Marrow, the Bone Alpha, are buried in his garden. A fourth grave is already dug. Tamsin has no wolf, a healer's clerk's eye for a ledger, and a bone whistle her dead mother told her never to blow. In a hold built over an ossuary, where a gracious aunt brings tea every night and the Alpha asks his new wife to lock her door after moonrise, Tamsin starts asking what really happened to the brides, and why the howling wolves on the mountain go silent when she speaks. A closed-door gothic werewolf romance with a poisoning mystery at its heart. This story is entirely fictional; its people, packs and places are invented. Contains fantasy violence, poisoning and a coerced-marriage premise (16+).