He's been coming in every morning for eight months. She still doesn't know his name.
Mae has run her family's coffee shop long enough to know her regulars — their orders, their habits, the small tells that give everyone away. The large orc in the corner reads his newspaper like a man working through a problem set. Tips twenty percent on drip coffee. Says thank you like he means it every time.
She told herself it was nothing.
Then the orange survey stakes went up on the north end of her block, and he looked up from his newspaper and said I know before she said a word — and she realized he had been paying attention to a lot more than his coffee.
Torven doesn't do anything without a blueprint. Thirty years of reading buildings, scenes, situations — knowing within seconds which way things are going to go.
Mae is the first structure he has walked into without one.
The Veteran's Rule is a cozy-spicy orc romance with slow-burn tension, a hero who has been watching longer than she knows, and a heroine who built something worth fighting for. Part of The Ashenvale Chronicles — interconnected standalones, no cliffhangers, guaranteed HEA.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Mae has run her family's coffee shop long enough to know her regulars — their orders, their habits, the small tells that give everyone away. The large orc in the corner reads his newspaper like a man working through a problem set. Tips twenty percent on drip coffee. Says thank you like he means it every time.
She told herself it was nothing.
Then the orange survey stakes went up on the north end of her block, and he looked up from his newspaper and said I know before she said a word — and she realized he had been paying attention to a lot more than his coffee.
Torven doesn't do anything without a blueprint. Thirty years of reading buildings, scenes, situations — knowing within seconds which way things are going to go.
Mae is the first structure he has walked into without one.
The Veteran's Rule is a cozy-spicy orc romance with slow-burn tension, a hero who has been watching longer than she knows, and a heroine who built something worth fighting for. Part of The Ashenvale Chronicles — interconnected standalones, no cliffhangers, guaranteed HEA.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
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