Anchor of Ash and Fangs
By @john1208
The pouring rain at High-Physician Valda’s funeral provided the perfect cover for Nivara to steal the dead woman's credentials. A fiercely loyal, hot-tempered trench nurse, Nivara needs access to the quarantined Mournvel woods to find a cure for her dying spore-fox, Myco. But the Mournvel is a death trap. Its inhabitants, the feral Vorga pack, are cursed to remain in their terrifying beast forms until they find a human mate to anchor their minds. When Nivara arrives under a false name to treat a wounded pack member, her bare hands accidentally touch Tavrok, the massive, hulking Alpha. Instantly, her touch neutralizes his feral bloodlust, binding them in a biological survival tether. Tavrok becomes suffocatingly overprotective, treating the abrasive nurse like a fragile glass doll and going utterly berserk whenever her reckless temper leads her into the dangerous bogs. But a dark threat looms: the Mourn-Blight, an eerie magical sickness that rots only humans who enter the pack lands. With her stolen identity unraveling and her lungs slowly filling with cursed ash, can Nivara break the pack's curse before the Blight claims her life?
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