Sienna Drummond has spent twenty-seven years being spent, offered by her brother to the highest bidder pack after pack, a coin passed hand to hand and never once asked what she wanted. When she finally runs, it isn't for a man. It's for a case of stolen proof, a hunter's howl she cannot explain, and one chance to belong to nobody but herself.

Wade Tully is Blackpine's steady second, a single father who has spent seven years earning back a pack's trust and raising his daughter alone, guarded against anything that might cost them both again. When the Conclave brokers a formal alliance-mating to keep two packs from open war, and it lands on his door, Wade tells himself he can marry a stranger for the valley's sake and keep his heart out of it. Then the wind shifts, and the fated pull says otherwise.

A mating built for a treaty is not supposed to feel chosen. It is not supposed to feel like the family Wade's watchful, careful daughter has been quietly waiting for, or like the first door Sienna has ever walked through without someone else's hand at her back. But Sienna's brother is not finished, and the same corrupt hand that once fed hunters a bloodline's name is reaching for hers now, offering her one more chance to be spent, this time to save the family she was born into by betraying the one she is only beginning to choose.

A Truce Made of Teeth is the third behind-closed-doors, fated-mates wolf-shifter romance in The Wolves of Blackpine: a marriage-of-convenience that turns real, a found-family romance between a guarded single father, his watchful daughter, and the woman learning that being wanted and being used were never the same thing. Guaranteed HEA; the bond is a pull, not a leash.