Bitterroot Pack, Book 2
Debt Season
He came back for a mate and a third of a valley. The paper promised him a hearing.
He came back for a mate and a third of a valley. The paper promised him a hearing.
Twenty-two years ago, Malachi Beckett was exiled from the Bitterroot Pack. This October he stands at the Beckett Ranch gate with his dead brother's signed debt in his hand: a share of the den land, and the right to press a marriage claim for a Beckett daughter under pack law. The daughter is Sienna.
Sienna Beckett tracks wolves for a living. She reads ground the way other people read print, and she does not intend to be read into anybody's ledger. Before any council sits, she means to track the truth of her father's note across twenty-two years of silence: who wrote it, what it bought quiet about, and whether the signature is even his.
Tobias Renner has loved her in silence for years. He is also the pack's beta, the officer who must run Malachi's hearing fairly or break the law he carries.
Pack law gives Malachi a hearing before the first snow. An unheard claim at first snow defaults to the claimant. The snow is coming. Whose name will the hearing write down?