Heat: open-door and explicit. Enemies to lovers, one couple, no harem.
Two rivals. One shared class. A way out that only works if they build it together.
Junia Pell came to the Bellows Deep salvage job for one thing: the pattern library that could finally buy her a workshop free of any guild patron. Bram Calder came to keep the crew alive. They've barely stopped arguing when the floor gives way — and the only thing in the dark that can brace the collapse is a forge terminal offering a class the records swear never existed.
Tandem. One rank shared between two people. Powers that grow only when they invent together, and vanish the moment either walks away. Accepting it costs them the classes they spent years earning. Refusing it costs them their lives.
They brace the passage. Getting out takes more — a device neither can build alone, materials they don't have, and a grudging trust that keeps turning into something neither of them planned. By the time they reach daylight they've made two things they didn't expect: a working invention, and a problem.
Severin Holt and the Kiln Consortium own the ruin, the bellmetal, and most of the basin's salvage rights — and the moment they see what Junia and Bram can do, they make an offer. Surrender every tool the new class produces, and the debts disappear. Keep it, and the Consortium will make sure the work costs them everything.
To stay free, they take one dangerous contract: recover a lost survey crew's instruments and prove a safe route before the seasonal flood drowns the shaft. Succeed, and they fund their own workshop. Fail, and they've got nothing — except each other, which is starting to feel like the only part of the arrangement worth keeping.
A complete, open-door romantic crafting LitRPG with real progression, warm humor, genuine danger, and a rivals-to-lovers couple worth following across the whole series.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Two rivals. One shared class. A way out that only works if they build it together.
Junia Pell came to the Bellows Deep salvage job for one thing: the pattern library that could finally buy her a workshop free of any guild patron. Bram Calder came to keep the crew alive. They've barely stopped arguing when the floor gives way — and the only thing in the dark that can brace the collapse is a forge terminal offering a class the records swear never existed.
Tandem. One rank shared between two people. Powers that grow only when they invent together, and vanish the moment either walks away. Accepting it costs them the classes they spent years earning. Refusing it costs them their lives.
They brace the passage. Getting out takes more — a device neither can build alone, materials they don't have, and a grudging trust that keeps turning into something neither of them planned. By the time they reach daylight they've made two things they didn't expect: a working invention, and a problem.
Severin Holt and the Kiln Consortium own the ruin, the bellmetal, and most of the basin's salvage rights — and the moment they see what Junia and Bram can do, they make an offer. Surrender every tool the new class produces, and the debts disappear. Keep it, and the Consortium will make sure the work costs them everything.
To stay free, they take one dangerous contract: recover a lost survey crew's instruments and prove a safe route before the seasonal flood drowns the shaft. Succeed, and they fund their own workshop. Fail, and they've got nothing — except each other, which is starting to feel like the only part of the arrangement worth keeping.
A complete, open-door romantic crafting LitRPG with real progression, warm humor, genuine danger, and a rivals-to-lovers couple worth following across the whole series.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Used availability for MK Dalton's The Forge Between Us