Orc’s Blood by Milly Taiden

Welcome to the Veil lands, where monsters are the only ones who can save you.

Imara
I was a high-ranking healer in a cult that harvests human life.
Then I broke the rules to save a child.
Now I’m running for my life, my hands stained with the blood of my superiors.
The seven-foot orc assassin sent to hunt me down has eyes like dead coals.
He’s the only monster strong enough to help me tear this empire down.
They built him to be a brainless weapon. I’m teaching him how to crave freedom—and me.

Kharvek
Two decades of killing on command.
Then I was sent to eliminate a beautiful rebel with fire in her veins.
She was supposed to be an easy execution. A name to erase.
But she presses her body against mine and demands an alliance instead of mercy.
Now, her touch triggers a wild, unholy power inside me that I can’t control.
I was bred to be the hand that strangles her. Instead, she’s rewriting my soul, one breathless kiss at a time.