the Wolf of Veiled Wood

She was hired to draw the map. She never meant to fall for the man she was sworn to hate. Wren Ashdown has spent six years earning her place as a cartographer for the Caerwyn Border Watch - the only orphan girl from Fenmarch ever trusted with real ink. When the Crown sends a survey team into the Veiled Wood, the ancient, half-sentient forest that has swallowed maps and men alike for a century, Wren finally gets the commission that could make her career. She did not expect to be escorted by the Wolf of the Sylvain Court. Kaelen Thorne is the most feared border commander the Sylvain have ever produced - cold, precise, despised by his own people for the human blood in his veins. His orders are simple: watch the Caerwyn survey team, and report if Wren's kingdom is quietly preparing for war. But the Wood does not want to be mapped, and it has secrets of its own - a shadow stirring beneath old wards, a captain Wren has trusted since she was fourteen, and a mark hidden in Wren's own blood that could change everything both kingdoms believe about the century-old peace between them. As the survey pushes deeper and the wards grow thinner, Wren and Kaelen will have to choose between the loyalties that raised them and the truth neither of their kingdoms wants to hear - before the one man Wren has always trusted finishes what he started long before she ever crossed the boundary stones. THE WOLF OF THE VEILED WOOD is Book One of THE SHATTERED CROWN, a romantasy of enemies-to-lovers longing, forced proximity, and a betrayal that will cost more than either of them is ready to pay.