Dire Bound

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Author
Sable Sorensen
Publisher
Penguin
Genre
Fiction

Dire Bound

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    Synopsis

    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 the massive, vicious direwolves they ride. While they live in luxury, Meryn struggles to keep her family out of poverty. When her little sister, Saela, is kidnapped - stolen across the border by the immortal monsters her country has spent centuries fighting - Meryn’s world falls apart.

    Desperate to cross the front and save her sister, Meryn enlists in the army and is thrown into the deadly Bonding Trials, where any mistake will cost her life.

    Now Meryn must survive four months of training at the castle. She is bound to a feral direwolf who refuses to communicate. The other trainees would love to spill her common blood. And her cold and beautiful instructor, Stark Therion, is eager to punish any weakness.

    Everything is a competition, and everyone is out to get her - everyone 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.

    Sable Sorensen
    About the author

    Sable Sorensen

    Sable Sorensen writes spicy dark romantasy and is thrilled to have launched her debut novel DIREBOUND this year. Sable is the pen name of two good friends and fantasy fangirls who teamed up to write books that feature strong heroines, spicy romances, and the never-ending fight between those in power and those who would defend the weak and vulnerable.

    Books by Sable Sorensen

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