Teind Bride

She won the teind, the blood tithe the fae take every seven years. Now she has to marry the hunter who ran her.

Ishbel: I'll marry you for my sister. Don't you ever mistake it for anything else.

Morcant: I swore to answer every question she asks me, true. There's one I hope she never asks.

Ishbel ran the Wild Hunt in her sister's place and won. The Seelie took Annabel anyway, with a honey cake. War can't free a guest from a hill. Only a petition can, under the Unseelie Queen's seal, carried by one of her house.

So Ishbel proposes to Morcant, Master of the Wild Hunt. Her terms: her knife stays on her, she eats only mortal bread, and her bed is hers.

The Hollow Hill wants the mortal bride dead. A bloody thorn on her pillow. A poisoned cup at her wedding feast. The Seelie heir who took her sister trades news of Annabel for her company.

The court settles outside the bridal doors until dawn. So she decides they'll hear.

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Perfect for fans of A Court of Thorns and Roses and Quicksilver who want a marriage of convenience with teeth, a morally gray fae prince who falls first, and spicy, explicit, open-door romance told from both sides. Book 2 of The Teind: one couple, four books, a guaranteed happily ever after. Start with Teind Night. It ends on a cliffhanger.

Marriage of convenience. Forced proximity. Touch her and die. Who did this to you?