A stern Alpha commander bound by duty. A vulnerable Omega bearing a lethal secret. A frontier stronghold under siege.
High Marshal Gabriel Vance is the cold, unyielding iron shield of the northern border. He lives for discipline, strategy, and the defense of his royal brother's realm. He has no room for emotional entanglements?until a bleeding, unconscious Omega collapses against the gates of his garrison during a midnight blizzard, clutching a stolen ledger and nursing an early, fragile pregnancy.
Soren Sterling spent months escaping an abusive warlord who sought to use him as a breeding broodmare. Weak, malnourished, and terrified of Alphas, Soren expects imprisonment. Instead, he finds himself swept into the arms of Marshal Gabriel, whose warm scent of cedarwood and crushed clove instantly calms Soren's panicked instincts.
When the warlord's elite hunting unit lays siege to the garrison, Gabriel relocates Soren to a hidden frontier safehouse. Trapped together inside the lodge, Soren's body enters a delicate nesting crisis that requires immediate Alpha scenting and physical care. Gabriel must choose between his military directives and his fierce urge to claim Soren as his own, knotting him through the dark winter nights and destroying the warlord who dared to harm his mate.
