Where Steel Softens

Garrick Tavis has guarded himself against love for years, building walls as unyielding as the armor he wears and the duty he lives by. But when an unexpected connection begins to slip through the cracks, Garrick finds his carefully controlled world shifting. Between the weight of loyalty, the scars of rebellion, and the quiet warmth of someone who refuses to be afraid of him, he must decide whether strength means holding the line - or finally letting himself feel. In a world forged by war, even the hardest steel can learn to soften.

Emmeline remembers nothing before the age of twelve - no childhood, no parents, no home. Her past is a hollow silence, a life erased without explanation. On her first day at Basgiath War College, surrounded by danger and strangers, she catches sight of a rider who feels impossibly familiar - a presence that stirs something buried deep in her fractured mind. Drawn to him despite every instinct for self-preservation, Emmeline soon realizes that the boy who feels like a memory may also be the very thing that unravels her. And at Basgiath, familiarity can be just as deadly as the unknown.

Garrick Tavis x OC