Claimed by ZAK The Conqueror: A Spicy Monster Fantasy Romance (Savage Oaths #17)

They slaughtered every man in her village. Five years later, another warband rides in. She meets them alone.

Naia has held her village together with nothing but will and a hunting knife. After the massacre that killed her husband and every male over thirteen, she became the wall—the chief, the protector, the woman who rebuilt a community from ashes and hid fourteen children in a root cellar to keep them alive.

Then Zak arrives. Seven feet of iron-capped tusks, black armor, and a conqueror's claim on her valley.

He expects a standard occupation. He doesn't expect her—a woman who faces down his entire warband unarmed, calls him a guest in her own village, and lies to his face every single night to protect a secret that would destroy whatever is building between them.

He rebuilds her wall. She tells herself it's strategy.

He kills a shadow lynx with his bare hands to keep her safe. She tells herself it means nothing.

He sits down on a bench so she doesn't have to look up at him, and she stops being able to tell herself anything at all.

But Naia is hiding something—and when the truth comes out, it will shatter the fragile trust between them. And the monsters who destroyed her world five years ago? They're coming back to finish what they started.

This time, they'll have to go through Zak.

Claimed by the Conqueror is a steamy monster romance featuring a fierce village chief who bows to no one, a possessive orc warlord who'd burn the world for her, and enough heat to set the palisade wall on fire. Book Five in the Savage Oaths series. Can be read as a standalone. HEA guaranteed.

Perfect for fans of Ruby Dixon, Finley Fenn, and C.M. Nascosta.

Content Explicit sexual content, possessive hero, themes of violence and trauma, references to past massacre. Intended for readers 18+.