The Broken Orc's Clever Bride

He’s a scarred orc captain who wants nothing to do with anyone. I'm the bright human herbalist determined to thaw his frozen heart.

I volunteered for a political marriage to the orcs in exchange for access to rare medicinal plants found only in their forbidden territories. I expected a terrifying brute. Instead, I got Captain Dran — a massive, fiercely grumpy war hero with a haunted past, a heavy clockwork arm he despises, and a heart buried under layers of ice.

Dran doesn’t do sunshine. He doesn’t do softness. And he certainly doesn’t do a cheerful human wife who refuses to be intimidated by his growls or his scars. He tries to keep me at arm’s length with sharp words and icy boundaries, convinced he is too broken to ever be worthy of my light.

But I don’t scare easily. Armed with stubborn optimism, healing salves, and terrible puns, I begin chipping away at the walls around his scarred soul.

When danger from the past threatens our fragile new life, the time for bickering is over. Forced to stand together against a ruthless enemy, my stoic captain must decide whether to keep pushing me away… or finally let me in.

The Broken Orc's Clever Bride is a spicy monster romance novella featuring an ultimate grumpy/sunshine pairing, forced proximity, and a marriage of convenience that slowly turns into something deeper. Expect high-stakes tension, a deeply possessive “touch her and die” hero, and plenty of primal heat.

Each Grumpy Orcs of Evergreen Hallow series book is a standalone fated mates romance with a new couple and a guaranteed HEA, but the cameos, inside jokes, and ever-growing found-family chaos hit a million times harder when read in order—start with Book 1 and thank me later.