Orc’s Whisper by Milly Taiden

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

Aradya:
I live in the shadows of the catacombs, letting the dead use my lips to whisper their final secrets.
But a routine ritual rips open a forbidden door, unleashing a horde of starving spirits onto the city.
Now, the only way to survive the apocalypse I caused is to bargain with the deadliest enforcer in Blackreach.
Drokhar. He’s a massive, ruthless Orc who commands the execution pyres, and he has me backed against the stone walls.
I don’t get a chance to take in his cold ash eyes, before a brutal, primal mating mark violently burns into our flesh, tying my soul to his.
He’s supposed to drag me to the flames. Instead, his heavy hands on my skin make me crave a whole new kind of ruin.

Drokhar:
For most of my life, my blade and my fires kept the dead silent—I didn’t feel, and I never spared.
Then I was sent to eliminate a beautiful, blood-stained witch whose voice commands the graves.
She brought me to my knees by channeling the one ghost I couldn’t escape.
Now, a dormant mating brand has violently awakened in my chest, screaming that she belongs to me.
The chains I put on her wrists do nothing to stop the electric pull dragging us together.
I was born to reduce her kind to ash. But all I want is to burn the world and keep her safe.