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She has spent thirty years driving out of every town before it could keep her. This one is dying, and the only man who can help is the one everyone else crosses the road to avoid.
Sorrel sells color for a living. She can hear when a dye is true, and she has just learned she can pour it back into a world that has started, quietly, to lose it. She rolls into Wendholt for the summer fair and finds the valley going grey at the roots, the reds thinning on the drying-lines, a child fading in a chair, and a cold thing under the ground that is eating the bright out of everything it touches.
Garrow is the only other soul who can feel it. A grey Stonefang orc, a war-mason who came home to be feared and has been alone for nine years, he builds things that outlast mountains. Now he builds the one thing strong enough to let her hold the color without it tearing her apart.
But an ancient debt called the First Bargain has come to collect a hundred years of unpaid tribute, and it will take its price in color or in lives. Every hue Sorrel gives back costs her a piece of herself she does not get back, and the debt has learned exactly where she is soft. To save a whole valley she will have to do the one thing she has run from her entire life. Stop leaving. Choose him out loud. And let herself, at last, be kept.
Standalone in the Stone & Storm world, with a guaranteed happily-ever-after and four open-door scenes as careful and enormous as the man they belong to.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Sorrel sells color for a living. She can hear when a dye is true, and she has just learned she can pour it back into a world that has started, quietly, to lose it. She rolls into Wendholt for the summer fair and finds the valley going grey at the roots, the reds thinning on the drying-lines, a child fading in a chair, and a cold thing under the ground that is eating the bright out of everything it touches.
Garrow is the only other soul who can feel it. A grey Stonefang orc, a war-mason who came home to be feared and has been alone for nine years, he builds things that outlast mountains. Now he builds the one thing strong enough to let her hold the color without it tearing her apart.
But an ancient debt called the First Bargain has come to collect a hundred years of unpaid tribute, and it will take its price in color or in lives. Every hue Sorrel gives back costs her a piece of herself she does not get back, and the debt has learned exactly where she is soft. To save a whole valley she will have to do the one thing she has run from her entire life. Stop leaving. Choose him out loud. And let herself, at last, be kept.
Standalone in the Stone & Storm world, with a guaranteed happily-ever-after and four open-door scenes as careful and enormous as the man they belong to.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
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