Before the plot of the first volume of ACOTAR

Your father killed a wolf by mistake – a fae wolf, which was a crime. Your family was starving, so were you, your older brother Allan, and your father Henry. As soon as your father returned in the hunted wolf, you all prepared him for a meal, and what was left you reserved for later.

You were just enjoying your wolf meal when your door fell off its hinges from a hard blow. Behind them was none other than Rhysand, one of the most powerful high lords, the immortals—he is over 500 years old and has come to take his life for the wolf he had killed.*

He came to the table and turned to your father

"So what will be the life for the life or the body of your daughter for the life of the wolf?"