The south remembers Princess Johanna Baratheon as a fragile thing-a broken Lannister castoff who barely survived her own mother's poison. Left with a permanent, phantom chill that seeps directly into her bones, she was exiled to the frozen walls of Winterfell at eleven years old.
But the capital underestimated her. Casterly Rock taught her how to survive under the fierce protection of Jaime Lannister, and Winterfell gave her a pack.
When King Robert's royal procession pours into the northern courtyard expecting a weak, trembling girl they can drag back to a golden cage, they are met with a wall of pure northern steel. Because the North doesn't wait for southern permission to seal its pacts-and two moons before the King ever left King's Landing, Johanna was wed before the Old Gods to the Young Wolf himself, Robb Stark.
Now legally, spiritually, and fiercely a Stark of Winterfell, Johanna is no longer a victim. Backed by her husband's unyielding devotion, her fiercely protective good-brother Rickon, a loyal northern guard led by Jory Cassel, and a massive ash-grey mastiff named Trident who takes no royal nonsense, Johanna is ready to turn the tables on the lions and stags of the south.
Cersei tried to put her in a crypt in the dark. But surrounded by her pack, Johanna Baratheon-Stark has never felt more alive.
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