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In the sootted gutters of 19th-century Montura, Sable is an orphan with nothing to her name but the steady rhythm of a thief's heart.
One fateful night, a solo heist goes wrong and sends her screaming into the forbidden Montura forest, where the predators are legendary and the shadows have teeth.
She expected to die under the claws of a mountain cat, but what she didn't expect was to be plucked from the jaws of death by Vrell, a massive orc warrior whose strength is as terrifying as his mercy.
But salvation comes with a staggering price.
Ravaged by the hallucinogenic venom of poisonous thorns from a native bush, Sable is barely conscious when Vrell carries her into the high peaks to find the only healer that can save her. And Vrell knows that bringing a human into the sacred mountain air means to invoked the responsibility of a warden.
He is now her shadow, her protector, and her jailer- bound by blood and oath until she is healed and returned.
The oath is a scandal, and the magical tether it forged between them is a catastrophe.
But the complications don't stop there.
Because Vrell is already mated.
His heart, his bed, and his loyalty belong to Mogor, a fierce orc who rules his mate with a territorial grip. Mogor not only wants the human girl gone, he wants the bond snapped and for Sable to disappear from his life forever.
But as the magic pulses between Vrell and Sable, a forbidden hunger begins to burn in Vrell's eyes- a desire that betrays his mating marks and threatens to tear his world apart.
Trapped in a mountain stronghold where she is unwanted and hunted by a jealous mate, Sable must survive the poison in her blood and the warring instincts of the two orcs who now hold her fate in their hands.
In the deep tunnels of Thrak'Mor, the only thing more dangerous than a monster's hate is a monster's divided heart.
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MMF Orc Romance