Ranfinas Aka was allergic to following good advice. That was why he was caught in the middle of a torrential rain storm with the wife of an elven lord draped across his saddle, riding hard for the forests to lose the men chasing after them.It should have been easy. A quick kidnapping, a hefty ransom, and then he wouldn’t need to worry about who would be paying his gambling debts or keeping the eye of his elder brother from following him across the countryside... moreRanfinas Aka was allergic to following good advice. That was why he was caught in the middle of a torrential rain storm with the wife of an elven lord draped across his saddle, riding hard for the forests to lose the men chasing after them.It should have been easy. A quick kidnapping, a hefty ransom, and then he wouldn’t need to worry about who would be paying his gambling debts or keeping the eye of his elder brother from following him across the countryside.“I’d expect nothing less of an orc bastard like you.”Being a chambermaid wasn’t exactly how Hera Keydi had imagined her life would turn out, but it was a living, and it kept food in the mouths of her younger siblings. But nothing could have prepared her for being kidnapped on a rainy night and thrown over the back of a horse—especially by the likes of an Aka bastard who had no business being anywhere near her master’s keep.Hera just wants to return to her boring life, but that means making an uneasy truce with a scoundrel who should be in the stocks, not in her bed.
Stolen by the Orc is a dark fantasy romance. It contains dubious situations, mature content, and graphic violence some readers might find offensive and/or triggering. less
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