Dire Bound (The Wolves of Ruin, 1)

Fourth Wing meets The Hunger Games in this spicy, page-turning romantasy where humans and direwolves forge unbreakable bonds and fight for survival at all costs.

Only the worthy survive the Bonding Trials. She’ll risk her life—and her heart—to be one of them.

Meryn Cooper has always hated the Bonded, elite warriors who form mental links with massive, vicious direwolves. While they live in luxury, Meryn struggles to keep her family out of poverty. When her little sister, Saela, is kidnapped by the immortal monsters her country has spent centuries fighting, Meryn’s world falls apart.

Desperate to save her sister, Meryn enlists in the army and is thrown into the deadly Bonding Trials, where any mistake will cost her life. She must survive four months of training at the castle, bound to a feral direwolf who refuses to communicate. Her fellow trainees would love to spill her common blood, and her cold, beautiful instructor, Stark Therion, is eager to punish any weakness.

Everything is a competition, and everyone is out to get her—except the dangerously handsome crown prince, whose attention adds another target to her back. In the castle, every smile hides a knife…and the halls hide dark secrets.

It’s bond or bleed. Duel or die. Failure is ruin.

Dire Bound contains mature content including graphic violence and is recommended for readers 17+. For a full list of tropes and content warnings, please visit the author's website.

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