Direbound (The Wolves of Ruin)Only the worthy survive the Bonding Trials. Shell risk her lifeand her heartto be one of them Meryn Cooper has never dreamed of being one of the Bonded, the Kings elite warriors who form mental links with massive, vicious direwolves. Shes made peace with her life scraping by in poverty in the shadows of the castle. But then her younger sister Saela is kidnapped, stolen across the border by the immortal monsters her country has spent centuries