She Told the King to Sheathe His Sword

Synopsis

For ten years Rowan has hauled ale and scrubbed flagstones in the keep her family once ruled, nameless since the night the archives burned with her parents inside. Then King Cassian rides through the iron gates to collect his northern taxes, pulls her collar aside, and finds a crescent-and-peak birthmark on a girl the pack calls scrub. He puts a sword to the alpha's throat and promises a tribunal at dawn. But when the king raises his blade to give her enemy a clean warrior's death, Rowan is the one who says wait.