Tusk & Thistle

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.
She signed on to heal the orc chieftain for one season. She never planned to stay forever.

Herbalist Wren Halloway needs forty crowns to buy her place in the Healers' Guild and a quiet life with walls around it. So when the orc clan up the mountain asks for a healer and the town physician refuses, Wren signs the contract.

She expects a brute. Korrath of Clan Ashtusk is scarred, proud, and dying by inches from a poisoned wound that will not close. He growls at everyone. He reads poetry badly. And with Wren, he is careful and gentle, and he asks permission for everything.

But the poison in his blood was not made by orcs. Someone in Wren's own town is arming a rival clan, and the peace between Thornhollow and the mountain may not last until first snow. To save it, Wren will have to choose between the safe life she planned and the giant who calls her his home.

Grumpy/sunshine, size difference, slow burn, forced proximity, a protective hero, and found family.

Tusk & Thistle is Book 1 of The Thornhollow Clans. Each book follows a new couple and ends with a guaranteed happily-ever-after. For adult listeners: the steamy scenes are fully consensual, talked through in advance, and fade to black at the explicit moments.