Dire Bound

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Meryn Cooper has always hated the Binders, the king's elite warriors who form mental bonds with fierce direwolves. While they live in luxury, she struggles to lift her family out of poverty in the shadow of the castle.

When her younger sister, Saela, is kidnapped and taken across the border by the kingdom's enemies, Meryn's world collapses. Desperate to save her, she enlists in the army and faces the Binding Trials, where even the slightest mistake is punished with death.

Now she must survive four months of arduous training in the castle.

Bound to a wolf who refuses to communicate with her and tested to her limits by a beautiful, cold instructor eager to spill her common blood, Meryn discovers that the castle is as lethal as the battlefield. Between brutal lessons and dangerous court games, survival requires strength, cunning, and… sacrifice.

Everything is a competition. Everyone is an enemy. Everyone, except the crown prince, whose attention adds another target to her back.

Author: Sable Sorensen