His Iron Promise

She was raised to kill him. He was raised to be worth killing. Neither of them was raised to survive the other. Sera has spent ten years preparing for one moment: the murder of the warlord who sacked her city and killed her mother. She gets the assignment, the knife, and the servant's uniform. She gets months inside his house. What she finds is a broken man quietly funding the orphans his own raids created, keeping a roster of names he refuses to forget, and wearing a wedding ring he lost the right to wear years ago. He doesn't recognize her until the day he sees her fight. Then he asks the only question that matters, and both of their lives break open. A dark enemies to lovers fantasy romance for readers who want the assassin romance to actually hurt before it heals.