The Orc’s Human Bride

She stole a dead man’s secrets to survive him. The orc blacksmith who claimed her only wanted to keep her that way.

Wren Hollis crosses into Duskmire with four copper coins, a broken bag strap, and a stolen ledger sewn into the lining, eighty pages of a corrupt merchant’s private arithmetic, the only proof of what Aldric Voss really is. She expected orcs. She did not expect a town that would rather feed her stew and ask no questions than turn her away.

Korrag runs the only forge in Duskmire and keeps books so bad they read like a confession. He needs a bookkeeper. Wren needs work that doesn’t ask where she came from. What starts as an interview over a disastrous ledger becomes something neither of them planned to want, and something the kingdom’s law was never built to allow.

Aldric Voss does not let what’s his walk away quietly, and eventually the debt Wren ran from will find the gate she came through. When it does, Korrag intends to make it very clear exactly whose protection she is under, and exactly how far he will go to keep her inside it.

The Orc’s Human Bride is Book One in The Orcs of Duskmire, a steamy monster romance series about the humans who cross the border looking for anything better, and the orcs who decide they are worth keeping.