The Bride of the Wolf King

Hundreds of years ago a struggle over power and appetite ended with the Wolf King losing the woman he loved. The grief did not pass, so he sealed his own memory of her away and went on ruling without it. She comes back into the world as a young woman with no standing in the kingdom, and she is chosen as his bride. He does not recognize her. She arrives inside a court she knows nothing about and has to learn its customs, its factions, and what is being hidden behind its walls, all while the man she is being married to looks at her as a stranger. Fragments of the old quarrel start surfacing anyway, in things she remembers that she should not, and in the grudges the older members of the court still carry from that time. She also finds that she is not the ordinary person she was raised to be, and that power of her own is waking up in her. War is coming toward the kingdom's borders while all of this is going on, and the attachment forming between the bride and the Wolf King is one the court has every reason to forbid. "This time I will kill anyone who stands in the way of our love," he tells her. "And you will be my princess, the only one."