THE ORC WARLORD AUCTIONS HIS SURRENDER

Mira Dain purchases the interrogation rights to General Tharos Vark to prevent his execution and stop a captured beast-fortress marching toward refugee camps. Each voluntary reading of the orc’s oath scars releases another buried war memory. As the seven-night truce closes, Mira must confront the city missing from her mind, the weapon she chose to build, and the enemy who engineered his own defeat to expose them both.

She buys the orc warlord she defeated to stop his execution, but the scars on his body reveal the kingdom erased an entire city.