When battle-scarred soldier Marcus returns home after Rome’s fall, the last thing he expects is to be felled by his childhood friend Wolf — now a towering blacksmith whose hammer blow sparks a love story spanning decades of devotion and desire.

From an abandoned frontier garrison to the windswept coast of northwestern Gaul, these two men forge a family and community together, proving that the strongest bonds aren’t created in a single flash of heat, but through the steady, tender work of a lifetime.

Tropes: childhood friends to lovers, reunion romance, hurt/comfort, caretaking, size difference, gentle giant, soldier/blacksmith pairing, found family, decades-spanning love story, pining/yearning, lifelong devotion, protectiveness/possessiveness, adoption and fatherhood, community building, older characters/silver foxes, widower, marriage and commitment ceremony, MMM threesome (brief), HEA with grandchildren

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