Honeybound to the Orc

by Luna Draven · Epic Orc Romantasy

Every bed in town was taken. His had a spare side. Carys has spent thirty years leaving. She rolls into a town, sells her honey, and is gone before anyone learns to want her to stay, because a woman who never stays can never be left. Then a broken wheel and a bad-tempered goose strand her at the midsummer fair, and the only roof left in Thistledown belongs to the one man in three valleys who lets nobody close. Madoc is a mountain of an orc. A war-engineer who came home from a finished war certain he was good for building things and nothing else. He says almost nothing. He builds everything. He gives Carys the spare bed because the inn is full, mends her broken hive box because he can't leave bad work standing, and has no idea he has just taken in the rest of his life. But the bloom that summer is going wrong. Under the valley an old, grieving thing is waking — a wronged fae court, come to collect a debt a hundred years forgotten, reaching up through the sweetness for the one woman who can hear it. Turning it back will take Carys's true song, Madoc's steady hands, and the one thing neither of them will risk: being chosen, out loud, in front of the whole town, and staying to pay what it costs. He will build her a door that holds against a god. She only has to be brave enough to walk through it, and stay. A standalone grumpy-sunshine orc fantasy romance with only one bed, a found family worth burning valleys for, a criminal goose, and a guaranteed happily-ever-after. Medium-high heat, open door. Book 11 of Stone & Storm, and a perfect place to start.