Bride of the Drowned Wolf King

Twelve years ago, my mother walked onto the ice and let the lake take her. I always thought it took her because she was weak.I was wrong.The water beneath Ninebark ground isn't empty, and it was never asleep. It's a god, and it doesn't forget a debt — and the debt my mother paid with her life, it now wants collected from me.Vaeric says he'll stand between me and a god if that's what it takes. I believe he means it. I also know a bond forged in ice can't stop a tide that's been waiting twelve years to rise.The lake wants a bride. The pack wants a sacrifice. I am done being anyone's payment.If I go into that water, I'm going in on my own terms — with the mark of the wolf I chose still burning on my skin, and every wrong Ninebark ever did me finally called due.This is the end of the debt. This is the end of the silence my mother left behind. This is mine.A dark, mythic, fated-mate finale — Book Three of The Winterbound Wolves trilogy.