When a striking blacksmith arrives in his mountain stronghold cradling a bear-pelted infant, warlord Uthyr recognizes the gods' design—but Britte herself proves far more dangerous to his carefully guarded heart than any battlefield foe.
Spanning decades of hard-won trust, suppressed desire, and impossible choices, this is the tale of a bond born of heat and shaped by friction, and of two formidable hearts whose collision will forge legends.
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