"I made a promise to protect you. Honor or not, that is one I intend to keep." - A story of a Lion and a Wolf, two beings brought together by the very same reasons that should have kept them apart.

To the rest of Westeros, Lady Caryssa Stark was the true beauty of the North with a voice from the heavens. To her family, she was loving, kind and nurturing, and a fierce fighter. To strangers, she was cold like steel with a wall of ice around her heart that could not be broken. After marrying a Lannister, Caryssa learns what it is to be a wolf surrounded by lions. AU-ish.

Jaime marries Ned Stark's daughter upon the king's command. Lyarra is a capable lady of the Westerlands and a dutiful wife, but when war breaks out between the Starks and the Lannisters and her family is left broken and divided, the little wolf of Casterly Rock becomes the she-wolf of Winterfell. In a war between wolves and lions, the Queen in the North will rise. Jaime/OC

When King Aerys has a daughter before the birth of his younger son Viserys, the history of Westeros takes a new turn. Princess Visenya of House Targaryen, only daughter of the King and sister to Prince Rhaegar and Prince Viserys crosses path with the young Lion of Lannister and thus start a chain of events with varying results!