The Warlord's Guide to Unsolicited Cuddles

Dr. Zosia Pavlasek, a Mind-Mender whose empathy is as vast as her temper is short, is on the brink of eviction. Her last hope arrives in a bizarre, gilded box: a job offer she can't refuse. The patient is Stellan Varos, the infamous 'Iron Warlord of the North,' a man so traumatized by his brutal past that the slightest physical contact sends him into a violent, destructive frenzy. The job? Live in his isolated, frost-bound manor and cure him. The pay? Enough to solve all her problems and then some. Armed with radical therapeutic techniques and a talking, kleptomaniac raven sidekick, Zosia chips away at Stellan's icy exterior. She’s shocked to find not a monster, but a deeply wounded man desperate for connection. But as Stellan's walls crumble and he begins to heal, Zosia uncovers the terrifying fine print of her contract: her 'cure' is not a cure at all, but a process that forges an unbreakable psychic bond. If she succeeds, she becomes his living anchor, forced to stay by his side forever to keep his demons at bay. Is the safety she fought so hard to win worth the price of her freedom?