When battle-scarred soldier Marcus returns home after Rome's fall, the last thing he expects is to be felled by his childhood friend Wolf — now a towering blacksmith whose hammer blow sparks a love story spanning decades of devotion and desire.
From an abandoned frontier garrison to the windswept coast of northwestern Gaul, these two men forge a family and community together, proving that the strongest bonds aren't created in a single flash of heat, but through the steady, tender work of a lifetime.
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