Dire Bound

By: Sable Sorensen

Narrated by: Avery Caris, Gabriel Michael

Fourth Wing meets The Hunger Games in this spicy, binge-worthy romantasy where humans and direwolves forge unbreakable bonds and fight for survival at all costs. Featuring exclusive bonus content!

Only the worthy survive the Bonding Trials. She’ll risk her life—and her heart—to be one of them.

Meryn Cooper has always hated the Bonded, elite warriors who form mental links with the massive, vicious direwolves they ride. While they live in luxury, Meryn struggles to keep her family out of poverty. When her little sister, Saela, is kidnapped—stolen across the border by the immortal monsters her country has spent centuries fighting—Meryn’s world falls apart.

Desperate to cross the front and save her sister, Meryn enlists in the army and is thrown into the deadly Bonding Trials, where any mistake will cost her life.

Now Meryn must survive four months of training at the castle. She is bound to a feral direwolf who refuses to communicate. The other trainees would love to spill her common blood. And her cold and beautiful instructor, Stark Therion, is eager to punish any weakness.

Everything is a competition, and everyone is out to get her—everyone except the dangerously handsome crown prince, whose attention adds another target to her back. In the castle, every smile hides a knife…and the halls hide dark secrets.

It’s bond or bleed. Duel or die. Failure is ruin.

Don’t miss the brand-new bonus chapter from Stark Therion’s perspective!

Dire Bound contains mature content including depictions of graphic violence, and is therefore recommended for listeners 17+. For a full list of tropes and TWs, please visit the author's website.

Perfect for fans of:

• Slow burn romance
• Found family
• Morally grey characters
• One bed
• Touch her and die
• Who did this to you
• Enemies to lovers
• Forced proximity
• Vampires vs. wolves!

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2025 Sable Sorensen (P)2025 Hachette Audio

Interesting, tense and suspenseful

This book was good! Lots of tension between characters, a few twists and turns, some predictability but left me wanting to read the next book!

So good!

Can't wait for book 2! Huger games meets fourth wing. Great plot, waiting for two!

Loved!!

This has been so hyped up, I was nervous I wasn’t going to enjoy it. A little predictable but I still loved it!! Narrators did amazing and the story was great. This put me into a little bit of a slump. Can’t wait for book 2!!

Great pacing!

Enjoyed the FMC and the plot - I was invested in the FMC development and can’t wait to see where the plot is going!

Fourth wing but make it wolves

I really enjoyed this book. It was engaging and kept me on the edge of my seat.

Spoiler/trigger warning:
One of the relationships within the book may trigger readers who have a history of gaslighting/emotional manipulation. I found it difficult to continue the book at a certain point when it became clear what was happening due to this. I do think it is still worth the read and I hope we get to see some comeuppance in the next book.