Stolen by the Wolf King
A Marriage of Convenience, Hidden Heir Shifter RomanceBy Freya Blackwood
Length8h 5m
About this audiobook
Freydis is the Silvermoon Pack's healer, and this morning she is short of yarrow.
She is also short of comfrey, grain, salt pork and time. The pack stores are not low. They are bare, scraped down to three strips of meat hanging from the rafters like forgotten washing, because Bloodfang raids cut the supply lines through the eastern pass and nobody told her.
Her brother Gunnar tells her to find some. In the middle of winter. Somewhere.
Her father, Jarl Hjalmar Ironhand, has thirty men left and a horn he has been emptying since before dawn, and an envoy arriving today from the Wolf King. Tryggve Ulfhednar wants a marriage alliance. He wants a queen out of the Silvermoon Pack.
*He wants a claim on our pack. A blood tie. A mating bond that makes him our kin whether we like it or not.*
So Freydis does the thing nobody in the hall expects. She challenges him. The law does not specify gender, and Tryggve names the terms himself: a Trial of Wits, three contests over three days, her choosing. If she takes all three, the claim breaks. If he takes even one, she marries him at dawn.
She opens with riddles passed down through six generations of Silvermoon healers. She has beaten every challenger in the village at Wolf and Renegade. What she has not accounted for is a king who watches how she stands, how she leans into her good leg, how her left foot turns out when she walks.
His adviser Sigrid notices it first and says the thing out loud that neither of them wants said: that Freydis walks the way his dead wife walked.
Ingrid's portrait sits on his desk in Frosthold, painted six months before she died, her hand on the swell of her belly. He moved it off the bedchamber wall so he could shut a door on it, and he still stares at it for three hours at a stretch.
What follows is not a rescue and not a romance anyone approves of. There is a cellar, a torch, a planted vial of diluted nightshade frost, and Hilda Gormsdottir screaming for the guards that the new queen has tried to kill the king. There is a fever, a hunt, a scar Freydis has never shown anyone, and a war on two fronts that does not pause for a wedding.
And there is Gunnar, coming through the great hall doors with his axe red to the haft and a sentence for his sister that lands better than any crown.
This is shifter romance in a northern pack world: an arranged alliance, a contest fought instead of accepted, a widowed king who has not put his first wife down, and a healer who refuses to be handed over, and it is written closed-door.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance
Length8 hrs 5 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
2Chapter 1 - The Claim I Never Wanted
3Chapter 2 - The Bargain I Couldn’t Forge
4Chapter 3 - The Riddle I Couldn’t Solve
5Chapter 4 - The Ghost I Heard at Midnight
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6Chapter 5 - The Hunt That Bound Us
7Chapter 6 - The Scar I Never Showed
8Chapter 7 - The Throne I Did Not Want
9Chapter 8 - The Portrait I Couldn’t Stare At
10Chapter 9 - The Poison I Didn’t Drink
11Chapter 10 - The Doubt I Couldn’t Crush
12Chapter 11 - The Fever I Couldn’t Cure
13Chapter 12 - The Hand I Couldn’t Let Go
14Chapter 13 - The Vow I Meant to Keep
15Chapter 14 - The Choice I Never Thought I’d Make
16Chapter 15 - The Road I Walked Alone
17Chapter 16 - The Cell I Couldn’t Escape
18Chapter 17 - The Game I Bet My Life On
19Chapter 18 - The Dawn I Didn’t See
20Chapter 19 - The Sanctuary I Built from Ash
21Chapter 20 - The Blood I Spilled for a Lie
22Chapter 21 - The Lie I Finally Broke
23Chapter 22 - The Battle I Chose to Fight
24Chapter 23 - The Betrayer I Did Not See
25Chapter 24 - The Price I Paid Willingly
26Chapter 25 - The Crown I Wore for Us
27About the Author
28The End
29About the Author
30Also by Freya Blackwood
31Acknowledgements
32A Note from the Author
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