Caged in the Ember Pits

The Ashborn Accords, Book Two

De: Kora Valeka

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Each book in this series can be read as a standalone.

She broke into the most dangerous place in the world. He caught her in forty minutes. Then the mountain sealed them both inside.

Tamsin is disgraced, desperate, and catastrophically good at being underestimated. Her mission: infiltrate the subterranean depths of the Caldera of Karth and retrieve intelligence documents before they destroy what's left of her career. Her execution: caught within forty minutes by Rhogar — the hulking, scarred Beast-Warden who lives in near-total isolation among the clan's dire-wolves and barely speaks unless the silence demands filling.

Before he can deliver her for judgment, a seismic collapse seals the lower caverns entirely. Ash-storm above. Rubble below. Weeks of forced proximity in the deep dark with a pack of dire-wolves and the one orc in the Caldera that even other orcs fear to approach.

Tamsin's response is immediate: snark, shivs, escape attempts, manipulation. Everything in her arsenal. Rhogar's response is to chain her to his waist — not as punishment, but because the things in the dark are worse than he is — and then feed her from his own rations, chew medicinal roots for her wounds, and refuse to be moved by a single word she says.

The problem with being caught by someone who has nothing to prove is that the usual tricks don't work. The problem with being kept safe by a creature who has exiled himself from all human contact is that eventually, you start to wonder why he did it. And the problem with wondering — really wondering — is that you might not like the answer. Or worse. You might like it far too much.

What's left when the woman who is always running has nowhere left to go?

Caged in the Ember Pits is an explicit dark monster romance featuring captive/captor dynamics, forced proximity, a scarred orc Beast-Warden, dire-wolves, and a guaranteed HEA.