Long Night

The page travels with the warden.Tam Brandt survived the Run and claimed her mate under Karvhal's law. Her reward is a border fort, orders written to keep the claimed pair apart, and her family's debt page sold to the Pale Alpha, a Brandt the office wrote dead forty years ago.Cass Marek counts heads at every door and serves a bond sentence measured in winters, most of them still ahead of him. When the office's case closes on him, it closes in iron: arrested for treason and forgery in front of his own patrol, chained so he cannot shift.Three hundred miles south, a clerk burns the Tally office's warrant book and rides north with one page stolen from the Founding volume hidden in his coat. And in Tam's chest, the mate bond pulls toward a cage. It is the only map she has.The Long Night is Book 2 of Wintermark, a dark shifter romantasy of debt, duty, and a bond the whole Tally office wants broken.