Tropes: Single parent, Protective hero, Kid chooses the love interest, Found family, Second chance, Size difference, MC romance
Kamie Andrews walked into Spencer Hardware with a suitcase and a four-year-old daughter and asked for a job. Walt Spencer hired her on the spot because the little girl reminded him of someone he lost. He didn't ask where Kamie came from. He didn't need to. He'd seen that look before — the one that checks every door twice and flinches at trucks that drive too slow past the windows.
Devan "Kelly" Kelly is an orc. An EMT. And a prospect at Ironhorse MC, which means he does the grunt work, stands outside the door during church, and waits for the vote that will make him a brother or send him packing. He's been earning it for months. He's patient. He's steady. He carries himself like a man who had to learn gentleness because nobody taught it to him.
He was born human. Looked human until puberty, when the orc DNA activated and the tusks came in and his Humans First family stopped seeing their son. They saw a weapon. He ran. Changed his name. Spent years trying to deserve the tusks he was taught to be ashamed of.
Then Penny Andrews climbs onto his lap at the hardware store counter and picks which color bandage goes in his EMT kit. She's four years old and she decides this orc is her person before either adult is ready for it. She holds his massive green hand walking down Main Street while Kamie watches her daughter love a monster and has to decide if she trusts Penny's instincts more than her own fear.
When Kamie's ex shows up with a lawyer and a custody claim, Kelly can't fight this with fists. An orc threatening a man with legal papers proves every fear the ex is selling. Kelly has to protect his family without becoming the monster Kamie's ex wants the court to see.
And somewhere in the middle of it all, a prospect is still waiting for a vote that will make him a brother ''' or send him packing.
The series closer with an orc prospect fighting for his patch and his family in the same breath. Tusks, scenting, a claiming bite, and a four-year-old girl who chose her monster before anyone else could. Standalone HEA.
Ironhorse MC: Forged, Not Born.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Kamie Andrews walked into Spencer Hardware with a suitcase and a four-year-old daughter and asked for a job. Walt Spencer hired her on the spot because the little girl reminded him of someone he lost. He didn't ask where Kamie came from. He didn't need to. He'd seen that look before — the one that checks every door twice and flinches at trucks that drive too slow past the windows.
Devan "Kelly" Kelly is an orc. An EMT. And a prospect at Ironhorse MC, which means he does the grunt work, stands outside the door during church, and waits for the vote that will make him a brother or send him packing. He's been earning it for months. He's patient. He's steady. He carries himself like a man who had to learn gentleness because nobody taught it to him.
He was born human. Looked human until puberty, when the orc DNA activated and the tusks came in and his Humans First family stopped seeing their son. They saw a weapon. He ran. Changed his name. Spent years trying to deserve the tusks he was taught to be ashamed of.
Then Penny Andrews climbs onto his lap at the hardware store counter and picks which color bandage goes in his EMT kit. She's four years old and she decides this orc is her person before either adult is ready for it. She holds his massive green hand walking down Main Street while Kamie watches her daughter love a monster and has to decide if she trusts Penny's instincts more than her own fear.
When Kamie's ex shows up with a lawyer and a custody claim, Kelly can't fight this with fists. An orc threatening a man with legal papers proves every fear the ex is selling. Kelly has to protect his family without becoming the monster Kamie's ex wants the court to see.
And somewhere in the middle of it all, a prospect is still waiting for a vote that will make him a brother ''' or send him packing.
The series closer with an orc prospect fighting for his patch and his family in the same breath. Tusks, scenting, a claiming bite, and a four-year-old girl who chose her monster before anyone else could. Standalone HEA.
Ironhorse MC: Forged, Not Born.
Genre: Paranormal Romance