Sold for Wheat, Given the Alpha's Ledgers

Synopsis

Emily of House Aaron is signed away to the Beast of Highridge for grazing land, salt rights and two hundred sacks of winter wheat. She rides north expecting a short, miserable life in a den of blood and bone. What she finds is a freezing fortress bleeding coin, a steward who cannot carry a sum, and an alpha king who lies down on the far side of the bed and falls asleep. On her first morning he tells her why he really paid for her, and hands her the keys to his keep. The pack is watching to see whether the southern girl breaks.