Tropes: Immortal age gap (300 years), Who could love a monster, Opposites attract, Touch-starved hero, Size difference, MC romance
Evelyn Gallo is the county coroner. She deals in death and permanence every day — the most permanent thing a body does. She's calm, precise, and her job makes people uncomfortable at dinner parties. She stopped caring about that a long time ago, around the same time she stopped letting people close enough to matter.
Rox Collins has been alive for three hundred years. He tends bar at the Mineshaft, pours perfect drinks, and remembers every conversation he's ever overheard. He's also a troll '' massive, regenerative, and incapable of scarring. Every wound closes. Every mark erases. Three centuries of living and his body has the skin of a newborn because nothing he's been through has ever left a trace.
He stopped trying to connect a century ago. He's loved before — watched every one of them age and die while he stayed the same. The early ones are fading now. Three hundred years and he can't remember their faces, blurred and erased by time the way his body erases scars.
Then Evelyn examines a body on his bar floor and doesn't flinch when a cut on his arm closes in front of her eyes. She leans closer.
A woman who handles the dead for a living, falling for a creature who can't die. She understands permanence as a professional fact. He's never experienced it. Three hundred years and nothing has ever lasted on his skin or in his memory.
But troll bonding changes the rules. If Rox falls for Evelyn, his regeneration splits — she starts healing faster while he starts healing slower. The immortal becomes breakable. The woman who chose the dead because the living disappointed her now holds the life of someone who's never been able to die.
The question isn't whether he'll scar. It's whether he's willing to.
An immortal troll falls for the woman and the woman who handles the dead. Three hundred years of loneliness, a bond that trades invulnerability for permanence, and the most emotionally devastating claiming in the series. Standalone HEA.
Ironhorse MC: Forged, Not Born.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Evelyn Gallo is the county coroner. She deals in death and permanence every day — the most permanent thing a body does. She's calm, precise, and her job makes people uncomfortable at dinner parties. She stopped caring about that a long time ago, around the same time she stopped letting people close enough to matter.
Rox Collins has been alive for three hundred years. He tends bar at the Mineshaft, pours perfect drinks, and remembers every conversation he's ever overheard. He's also a troll '' massive, regenerative, and incapable of scarring. Every wound closes. Every mark erases. Three centuries of living and his body has the skin of a newborn because nothing he's been through has ever left a trace.
He stopped trying to connect a century ago. He's loved before — watched every one of them age and die while he stayed the same. The early ones are fading now. Three hundred years and he can't remember their faces, blurred and erased by time the way his body erases scars.
Then Evelyn examines a body on his bar floor and doesn't flinch when a cut on his arm closes in front of her eyes. She leans closer.
A woman who handles the dead for a living, falling for a creature who can't die. She understands permanence as a professional fact. He's never experienced it. Three hundred years and nothing has ever lasted on his skin or in his memory.
But troll bonding changes the rules. If Rox falls for Evelyn, his regeneration splits — she starts healing faster while he starts healing slower. The immortal becomes breakable. The woman who chose the dead because the living disappointed her now holds the life of someone who's never been able to die.
The question isn't whether he'll scar. It's whether he's willing to.
An immortal troll falls for the woman and the woman who handles the dead. Three hundred years of loneliness, a bond that trades invulnerability for permanence, and the most emotionally devastating claiming in the series. Standalone HEA.
Ironhorse MC: Forged, Not Born.
Genre: Paranormal Romance