Book One
The Inheritance of Wolves
A cavalry commander rides into a border village to have a lame horse reshod and stays for the man at the forge, an oathbreaker priest hiding behind a farrier's name.
Mircea Călăreț serves a murdered ruler's orphaned heir and a legitimist claim with a deadline drawn on the longest night of the year. He has spent his life keeping a dying man's promise and wanting nothing for himself, because a man who wants nothing can never be made to fold.
The farrier calls himself Nicolae, and he is the one man in the Voivodate whose hands answer Mircea's: a Wolfrider priest-voice in hiding, the missing half of a bond-working the order's magic needs to settle the throne. That magic runs on absolute trust and charges for every truth withheld, and as the solstice deadline closes the bond everyone means to use becomes the one thing neither man will surrender.
The Inheritance of Wolves is Book One of The Stărmina Succession, a five-book M/M high fantasy romantasy following one couple. Read the series in order for fated mates, hidden identity, and forced proximity, with dark atmosphere and scorching on-page intimacy. The continuing love story reaches its hard-earned happily ever after in the final book.
Book Two
The Burning of the Library
Bonded at the winter solstice and hunted by the spring, Mircea and Răzvan ride to open war the morning the one man holding the peace is found dead with a Basarab signet laid on his chest.
The quiet winter is over. A knife in the dark has turned a slow succession into a civil war, and the blame has been dressed in the legitimist colors on purpose. Mircea Călăreț must lead a house into a fight it cannot win on numbers, while the boy heir he swore to protect sits behind stone that no longer stands far enough from the fighting.
Răzvan carries the second of the order's three workings, and it waits in a place that matters more to him than he has let Mircea see. Raising it will cost him something he cannot take back, and as grief closes over the people they counted on, the bond the winter gave them becomes the one thing they have to hold while the war takes the rest.
The Burning of the Library is Book Two of The Stărmina Succession, a five-book M/M high fantasy romantasy following one couple. Read the series in order for an established couple under siege and costly magic, with dark atmosphere and scorching on-page intimacy. The continuing love story reaches its hard-earned happily ever after in the final book.
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Book Three
The Silence of the Pass
To bring home the boy who must sit the throne, Mircea and Răzvan ride into a fortress warded against the bond-working they depend on, and for the first time since the solstice they have to learn who they are to each other without the magic.
The heir is gone, taken east to a keep cut into the rock to be impossible to take, and the clock on his rescue is his own coming of age. Mircea Călăreț has too few men to force the gate and a promise he made a dying ruler that he will not break now.
The fortress belongs to a Drăculești scholar whose wards suppress the bond-working. With their magical connection silenced and the boy’s freedom at stake, Mircea and Răzvan must trust each other without its reassurance—and find another way past the keep’s defenses.
The Silence of the Pass is Book Three of The Stărmina Succession, a five-book M/M high fantasy romantasy following one couple. Read the series in order for a dangerous rescue and an established couple tested without magical reassurance, with dark atmosphere and scorching on-page intimacy. The continuing love story reaches its hard-earned happily ever after in the final book.
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Book Four
The Last of the Workings
On the solstice, Mircea rides into the capital to negotiate a peace that must fail while Răzvan walks alone into the empty palace to raise the last of the three workings, at a cost neither of them will get back.
The war has come down to one winter night and two rooms a city apart. In the upper town Mircea Călăreț holds a negotiation he already knows will break, buying with words the hours Răzvan needs below. In the lower town Răzvan Drăgoi enters the empty voivodal palace to raise the third and final working, the one that ends the Wolfrider order forever.
The bond has carried them through everything the war could throw at it, but the last working must be done alone, with nothing but trust to cross a divided city. The cost is not one either man can pay and walk away unchanged, and what they are to each other on the far side of it is the question the solstice was always going to ask.
The Last of the Workings is Book Four of The Stărmina Succession, a five-book M/M high fantasy romantasy following one couple. Read the series in order for separation, sacrifice, and trust across distance, with dark atmosphere and scorching on-page intimacy. This installment ends happy-for-now. The continuing love story reaches its hard-earned happily ever after in the final book.
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Book Five
The Winter House
The war is over. The prophecy is complete. The bond is gone.
The war that carried Mircea Călăreț from a border forge to the capital is over. At the winter house, the roads are quiet and the life he fought to protect needs a different kind of attention. For the first time in his life Mircea Călăreț wakes to a morning that asks nothing of him, and finds he has no idea what to do with it.
The bond was the price they paid to end the war, and what is left is two men learning to want each other out loud, by daylight, with nothing magical to carry it — a marriage made by choice, a garden planted in hope, and a war-orphaned child learning that this house is safe. The happily ever after is not assumed but earned, morning by ordinary morning.
The Winter House concludes The Stărmina Succession, a five-book M/M high fantasy romantasy following one couple. Read the series in order for chosen love, found family, scorching on-page intimacy, and Mircea and Răzvan’s hard-earned happily ever after.
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