The Gravedigger's Bride

They call him the Gravedigger—the scarred warlord whose raids burned Iris Thorne's border village to ash and took everything she loved. So when the elders hand her to Kazimir Vale as a peace bride, she sews wolfsbane into her hem and swears she'll make him a widow before the spring thaw. But the monster of the northern fortress sleeps on the hearth floor, refuses to touch her without consent, and reads philosophy by candlelight. Worse, the moment their eyes met a mate-bond flared that her body won't deny. As a warmongering elder schemes to shatter their fragile peace, Iris has to decide whether the man she came to kill is the one thing worth saving.