The Orc's Lady

A Dark Fantasy Orc Romance

By: Sylvia S. Gravehorn

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Five hundred starving refugees. Six doses of medicine. One monster standing in the gap.

Maren was the village "dry branch," a woman cast out from the valley floor to the gates of the Black Iron Estate. Now, the tables have turned. As the steward of the fortress overlooking her former home, she is the only thing standing between her old neighbors and an early grave. But the mathematics of survival are brutal. The grain stores are failing, a violet plague is turning the living into glass, and the secret growing in her womb is a biological countdown she cannot stop.

Kozan is a High Orc General who traded his medals for a vineyard, but the High March has no room for peaceful men. The territorial rut has reclaimed him, turning his protective instincts into a lethal fever as a crystalline rot infects the very land he spent years taming. He is the only shield strong enough to hold the gate, but every time he draws his blade, he slips further away from the man Maren loves and closer to the weapon the Empire once feared.

The calculation has changed. It is no longer about holding the wall. It is about surviving the storm. As an Imperial legion marches north to salt the earth and collect an ancient blood debt, Maren and Kozan must prepare for a war that will determine the future of their lineage.

The High March is bleeding. Step into the visceral third installment of the dark fantasy romance saga where the cost of survival is written in iron and bone.