Tammy's Fated Orc Foreman

Tammy leaves Franklin, North Carolina, in a battered Corolla, set on putting real distance between herself and the controlling ex who refuses to release her.

A new job at StoneSteel Ranch promises a fresh start, and after seeing her friends form fierce, lasting bonds with Orc mates, she wonders whether that kind of love might be waiting for her too.

Ripplan, the ranch’s striking Orc foreman, has spent six years building a life aboveground, and old wounds leave him unwilling to trust humans or let Tammy close.

She is too bold, too compassionate, and too hard to ignore, and the attraction between them deepens just as danger gathers around the ranch.

Her past is nearer than she realizes, and not everyone in the mountains wants the StoneSteel brothers—or the woman who has begun to matter to Ripplan—left safe.

What began as a chance to start over becomes a fated enemies-to-lovers bond that will demand more than either of them expected.