I forged a letter, stole a seal, and talked my way into an orc trade caravan as a diplomat I invented three months ago.
The commander looked at my letter. Looked at my hands. Included me anyway.
Gurn doesn't talk. He grunts. One-word answers. I've been reading people since I was fourteen, and he's the first person where the surface and the interior are the same thing.
I can't read him. I can't stop watching him.
Every night the best portion of meat arrives at my place by the fire. He caught me on a mountain ledge and held on longer than the catching required. And when I stop performing long enough to sit beside him in silence, he says one word.
Better.
The lie is going to collapse. When it does, and the commander asks who I am, my answer is the worst one possible.
I don't know.
✓ Con artist heroine in over her head ✓ He knew the whole time ✓ Strong, silent, touch-starved hero ✓ One-word love language ✓ Forced proximity on the march ✓ Slow burn to explicit '' He says "mine" and means it
For fans of Finley Fenn and Ruby Dixon who want a hero built from silence and a heroine who's never met a truth she couldn't outrun.
Gurn's story. Book two in the Healer's Debt world. Can be read as a standalone.
Heat Level: Explicit POV: First person, heroine Ending: HEA
Genre: Paranormal Romance
The commander looked at my letter. Looked at my hands. Included me anyway.
Gurn doesn't talk. He grunts. One-word answers. I've been reading people since I was fourteen, and he's the first person where the surface and the interior are the same thing.
I can't read him. I can't stop watching him.
Every night the best portion of meat arrives at my place by the fire. He caught me on a mountain ledge and held on longer than the catching required. And when I stop performing long enough to sit beside him in silence, he says one word.
Better.
The lie is going to collapse. When it does, and the commander asks who I am, my answer is the worst one possible.
I don't know.
✓ Con artist heroine in over her head ✓ He knew the whole time ✓ Strong, silent, touch-starved hero ✓ One-word love language ✓ Forced proximity on the march ✓ Slow burn to explicit '' He says "mine" and means it
For fans of Finley Fenn and Ruby Dixon who want a hero built from silence and a heroine who's never met a truth she couldn't outrun.
Gurn's story. Book two in the Healer's Debt world. Can be read as a standalone.
Heat Level: Explicit POV: First person, heroine Ending: HEA
Genre: Paranormal Romance