ICE PLANET BARBARIANS meets Katee Robert's monster romance in this sexy contemporary fantasy romance debut about a powerful orc king who has found his mate in a woman whose brains, beauty and sharp wit threaten to bring him and his kingdom to their knees.

Thena just wants to survive FantastiCon with minimal human interaction and maximum sarcasm. What she didn’t plan for is a seven-foot plus mountain of muscle built like a Norse god, painted in green, who smells like he was forged in Valhalla and seems hell-bent on ruining her day.

Viggo Klausson isn’t a cosplayer. He’s the High Chieftain of the Eastern Orcs, and he’s spent two years in the human world tracking down one thing: his mate. The moment he scents Thena, he knows she belongs to him. The problem? Thena doesn’t believe in destiny, mating Bonds, or any of the magic that surrounds Viggo and his world.

One portal mishap later, Thena lands in Korule, a dangerous and divided world where women are rare--and suddenly, Thena is the most valuable thing in sight. Then an ancient power wakes up inside her, throwing her to the center of a political storm, guarded by an orc who is entirely too steady, too patient, and entirely too good at getting under her skin.

If she wants to survive, she’ll have to navigate a new world and a future she never asked for, all while fighting against the one thing more dangerous than the world around her: her growing, undeniable attraction to the orc king who swears she’s his.