The Werewolf's Bride
So she walked into Blackthorn territory wearing her mother’s old gray cloak and carrying nothing but stubborn hope.
The path narrowed until branches scraped her arms. She could hear wolves in the distance, not howling, just low, rumbling growls that vibrated through the earth. Her pulse matched the sound. She told herself it was only nerves. She had heard the stories: tonight the Alpha of the Blackthorn pack would choose a bride under the blood moon. Not from among his own kind. Not this time. War was coming with the northern packs. He needed fresh bloodlines, stronger heirs. Desperate times called for desperate measures. And desperate packs sometimes accepted human offerings, if the price w