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I Married an Orc for Protection: A Marriage-of-Convenience Monster Romance
Paperback
Series: Ironclad Orc Security, Book 3
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 286
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.71 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Three safe houses have failed. The only door left opens with a wedding ring.
At forty-five, a widowed forensic investigator trusts evidence, not promises. But the corruption network she is exposing has learned how to weaponize the city's ordinary systems. A maintenance order can reveal a protected address. A legitimate credential can open the wrong door. Every new refuge becomes another route to her.
Only one sanctuary lies beyond that reach: a fortified Orc enclave whose gates cannot be opened by outside authority. The cost of entry is simple on paper and dangerously complicated in practice-marriage to the scarred, sixty-year-old security founder who has wanted her for months.
He can give her his name and a safe home. He will not take her choices in return.
Before they sign, they turn the marriage into the most carefully negotiated arrangement either of them has ever made: independent credentials, separate professional authority, private rooms, separate finances, full disclosure, and a thirty-day review once the threat ends. Protection will remain a recommendation unless immediate danger makes consultation impossible. Affection will never become an obligation.
The plan is supposed to be temporary.
Then forced proximity becomes chosen closeness. Arguments become trust. A man accustomed to commanding crises learns that the greatest proof of strength is stepping back, documenting his conflicts, and allowing the woman he loves to decide which risks are hers to take. A woman who has already known a lasting marriage discovers that loving again does not erase the husband she lost-or require her to surrender the life and judgment she rebuilt.
Outside their gates, the danger keeps changing shape. The enemy does not need to forge every order or corrupt every official. It can borrow lawful authority, manufacture an emergency, and make honest institutions act on a lie. To expose it, she must untangle missing files, compromised permissions, and a conspiracy hidden inside systems designed to keep people safe. To protect her without possessing her, he must trust her to investigate the very threat he would rather face alone.
As the case closes around their new home, the question is no longer whether their marriage can keep her alive.
It is whether what began as protection will remain when she is completely free to leave.
Emotionally intimate and unapologetically adult, their romance unfolds through mature grief, sharp humor, mutual accountability, and on-page heat rather than instant destiny.
Open the book and discover a love story in which the strongest vow is not you are mine, but you are free-and I hope you choose me.
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