Seren thought her wedding would mark the start of a new life—until she discovers Caelan never married for love, only to shield another woman from a fatal curse. With her heart in pieces, she abandons the ceremony, takes the place of a bride sent north, and heads straight for the warlord everyone calls a monster. What she finds in the frozen North is far from the nightmare she expected, and the man at her side is not the beast in the stories. While Seren learns to survive and claim power in the wilds, Caelan uncovers the truth too late: she was the one who was meant to save him all along. Now he wants her back, but the woman he lost is gone.