Snowbound with the Grumpy Alpha: A Forty-Day Claim
Synopsis
Sunniva 'Nivi' Halloran is smuggling her newly presented brother out of Concord territory when black ice puts her truck in a ravine on Vondrak land, and the alpha who digs her out — Rurik Vondrak, grief-locked, scent-blind, universally feared — discovers she is the only living thing he can smell. With a census rider three days out and Toby's name already inked into the Ledger of Assigned Names, Rurik declares a false courtship, binding them to forty days under one roof and one set of watching eyes. What starts as performance becomes a real bond, and the bond becomes evidence — because the poison that stole Rurik's scent came from Nivi's mother's formula, and the Magistrate who used it is coming to take the pack, the boy, and her, lawfully.
Chapters 6 of 18 chapters free
- 1 Bleeding on His Land Free
- 2 One Thing Free
- 3 Four Jars Free
- 4 The Forty-Day Warding Free
- 5 Practice Free
- 6 Salt on the Road Free
- 7 The Second Chair Locked
- 8 The Bindery Locked
- 9 The Lawful Match Locked
- 10 Frost Market Locked
- 11 Withdrawal Locked
- 12 Three Days Behind a Door Locked
- 13 The Ledger Locked
- 14 The Woman on the Door Locked
- 15 Lawfully Locked
- 16 Severance Locked
- 17 Not Because They're Watching Locked
- 18 Two Horns Locked