SHE IS THE PRICE FOR HER PEOPLE'S SURVIVAL Diamond Davenport is a sheltered jewel in a frozen wasteland. Her father failed the North. Now the debt is due. Tribal Chief Zaire Green does not want copper or grain. He wants the untouched daughter of the man who failed him. He claims her as his tribute. He claims her as his bride. Zaire is a mountain of muscle and scars. Beside him stands Rhys Nguyen, a lethal shadow of a man. Together, they are the law of Oakenheart. Zaire hauls Diamond into the darkness of the Great Hall. Her old life ends at the threshold. She is a small, trembling bird caught between two towering giants. They intend to break her spirit and mold her into a vessel for their legacy. The cold air of the fjords bites, but the heat inside the fortress is suffocating. Diamond expects to perish. Instead, she finds herself unraveling under their absolute command. Her father will not save her. The village has forgotten her. She is no longer a commoner. She is the Lady of the Fjords, a prize trapped in a golden cage. She belongs to the conquerors of the North now, and they will never let her go.