“Ewan Blackwood has spent five years paying off a debt that was never his, smuggling contraband across the frozen border of the Northshore pack. Then a Council enforcer opens his coffin at midnight and the mate bond ignites between them over the silver chain that can kill them both. Maren was sent to execute him, not to fall for him. But the ledger Ewan guards proves the Council's founding Alpha was murdered, and every page pulls them deeper into a conspiracy that reaches into Maren's own family. As winter closes the crossing, they must choose: expose the truth and risk the pack, or keep silent and lose each other. One of them may not survive the crossing. Place and Time: The Northshore pack territory on the frozen north shore of Lake Superior, in the year 1891.”