Forge of the High Chieftain: A Dark Monster Romance
By Kora Valeka
Each book in this series can be read as a standalone.
She came to negotiate a treaty. He has no interest in her diplomacy.
Valena has spent her entire life becoming the most controlled woman in any room — glacial composure, impeccable manners, a diplomat's armor so polished it reflects nothing back. She volunteered for the posting to the Caldera of Karth because she is the one who goes where no one else will. She expected politics. Supply lines. Troop deployment schedules.
She did not...
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Each book in this series can be read as a standalone.
She came to negotiate a treaty. He has no interest in her diplomacy.
Valena has spent her entire life becoming the most controlled woman in any room — glacial composure, impeccable manners, a diplomat's armor so polished it reflects nothing back. She volunteered for the posting to the Caldera of Karth because she is the one who goes where no one else will. She expected politics. Supply lines. Troop deployment schedules.
She did not expect Drekkar.
High Chieftain of the Ashborn, massive and volatile and ferociously traditional, he accepted her as his drash'ya — his treaty-bride — the moment she arrived. Now he has announced she will undergo the Kash'nar: ancient public trials of orc courtship, conducted in front of the entire clan, escalating until she either yields or breaks. Her rational mind insists she is merely enduring a political obligation. Her body has already decided otherwise.
Drekkar doesn't want compliance. He had compliance. What he needs is a Queen with actual fire in her — a mate who will fight him, challenge him, match his primal nature with something equally ungovernable. Valena's absolute composure infuriates him more than defiance would. So he hunts her in the ways of his ancestors. Raw offerings. Volcanic heat. Ancestor-songs in the dark of his furs.
Strip away the armor, and what's underneath?
She's about to find out — and so is he. Because the woman beneath the diplomat isn't breakable. She is something far more dangerous.
Forge of the High Chieftain is an explicit dark monster romance featuring captive/treaty-bride dynamics, alpha claiming, a volcanic orc stronghold, and a guaranteed HEA.
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