Page 1 of Bound By Blood (Orc Warrior Romances #1)

“ T he stone does not speak in words, it remembers in weight, in fire, in fracture. I was carved from the bones of the world when it still wept ice. I witnessed the pact of blood and bark. And now, I call my heir. Let the healer walk with hurt. Let the bloom rise from ash.”

A lone figure, tattooed in obsidian and ash, kneels beneath a thunder-split mountain. Their hand trembles as they place a dying flower on the stone, one heartbeat away from memory.