a human woman and an orc, Open Door, Explicit, in a settled · Marrowvale
The Orc's Winter Guest
She was snowed in for one night. Under an orc roof in winter a guest is not a lodger — she is a member of the household, and nobody thought to explain the courtship rules.
Ffion Rannick maps hillsides for a living. Caught by early weather above the snowline, she is taken in at the Uzhrag steading, told kindly that nobody is leaving until the thaw, and handed a place at the table, a share of the work, and a mother-in-law scoring her son's courtship aloud like a judge at a show.
Brakkun Uzhrag is seven and a half feet of careful, and cannot hide a single thing he feels. When something comes down off the tops into the byre at midwinter, he deals with it in under a minute — then washes his hands and holds the door for her as though nothing happened.
By then a valley land-factor is snowed in with them, and her survey is the only paper record of a boundary this house has held for two hundred years on memory alone. To keep the household that took her in, she will have to burn the best work of her life — and it will not be enough.
Curvy heroine, size difference, fated mates, forced proximity, and a dangerous male who is gentle with exactly one person. Explicit, open door, standalone with a happy ending. Perfect for fans of Finley Fenn and Ruby Dixon.
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