When human healer Ember flees raiders into the mountains, the last thing she expects to find in an abandoned cave is a massive, wounded orc who should terrify her. But Thane, exiled warrior of a clan that no longer claims him, is dying from infected wounds that won't heal. And when a deadly blizzard traps them together with only one fire and shared body heat between them and freezing to death, Ember faces an impossible choice. Let the monster die, or save the life of someone her people would kill on sight. Thane has spent five years believing he deserves his exile, convinced he's the monster his blood-brother claimed he was. The last thing he needs is a fragile human female tending his wounds with gentle hands and stubborn courage, making him want things an exiled orc has no right to claim. But as the storm rages and their survival depends on each other, he discovers that sometimes the most dangerous thing isn't the blizzard outside. It's the way she looks at him like he's worth saving. When the snow clears, they'll have to choose between the safety of their separate worlds and a love that could destroy them both. Because in a land where orcs and humans are enemies, falling for each other isn't just forbidden... It's deadly.