BRIDES OF THE CITADEL ORCS
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A Paranormal Steamy Romance Series by Zola Vale
Blurb
Massive Orc Warlords. Human women. One frozen mountain... and a primal heat that melts the snow.
Series Description: Welcome to the High Citadel, where the winters are lethal, the Orcs are massive, and the laws are written in ice and blood. In the shadow of the fortress, humans scrape for survival, terrified of the monsters above.
But when a vengeful exile threatens to destroy the mountain, three Orc leaders—the Warlord, the Spymaster, and the Berserker—must do the unthinkable: protect the human women who have stolen their hearts.
Prepare for The Rut. These Orcs don’t just love; they claim. Driven by biological imperatives and ancient instincts, they will tear down the world to keep their fated mates safe.
This series features:
🔥High Heat
⚡Short Reads
💞Guaranteed HEAs
📑BRIDES OF THE CITADEL ORCS TROPES
👹🔥 BRIDES OF THE CITADEL ORCS
A Paranormal Steamy Romance Series by Zola Vale
💥 In a frozen world ruled by brutal orc warlords, survival is never guaranteed… but neither is the pull of fate.
From deadly hunts and forced alliances to snowed-in nights that ignite dangerous desire, each story in Brides of the Citadel Orcs delivers fierce heroines, powerful warriors, and bonds forged in fire, ice, and instinct.
These orcs are warriors, protectors… and mates who will stop at nothing to claim what’s theirs.
⚔️ High-stakes survival
❄️ Harsh, unforgiving landscapes
💞 Love that defies fear, power, and species
Enter a world where danger is constant… and passion is impossible to escape.
Series Tropes
❄️ Forced Proximity / Snowed In
👹 Monster Romance (Orc Heroes)
💪 Alpha / Possessive Protector Heroes
💞 Fated Mates
⚔️ Enemies to Lovers
🛡️ Bodyguard Romance
📏 Size Difference
🌪️ Survival Romance
🖤 Scarred / Broken Heroes
☀️ Grumpy x Sunshine
🔥 Primal Instincts & Protective Obsession
🏹 Warrior & Diplomat / Opposites Attract
👹💞Massive Orc Warlords.
Human women.
One frozen mountain...
and a primal heat that melts the snow.💓💪
THE ORC'S WINTER PRIZE: A STEAMY ORC ROMANCE
Brides of the Citadel Orcs Book 01
Previously published as Stolen by the Orc Spymaster: A Steamy Orc Romance by Vale, Zola.
Stolen by the Orc Spymaster is the 2nd book in the series and is now a separate book and title.
I volunteered to save my sister. Now, I’m running for my life from the Orc Warlord who wants to claim me.
The Lottery was supposed to be a death sentence. When my sister’s name was called, I didn't hesitate to take her place. I expected to die in the frozen wasteland. I expected to be torn apart by the beasts that rule our world.
I didn't expect him.
Grimm Roth. The Warlord of the High Citadel. A massive, scarred monster of grey skin and muscle who looks at me with hunger in his glowing amber eyes.
The rules are simple: I have twenty-four hours to reach the Sanctuary Bell. If I ring it, I win my freedom. If he catches me, I belong to him.
But when a blizzard traps us together in a narrow cave, the hunt changes. Huddled against his massive, unnatural heat to survive the freezing night, I realize he isn't just hunting for sport. He’s hunting for a mate.
He says he’s too dangerous for me. He says he’ll break me. But when his rough hands touch my skin, I don’t want to run anymore. I want to be caught.
Features:
Size Difference (He’s a huge Orc, she’s a tiny human)
Forced Proximity (Snowed in together)
Primal Play & The Hunt
Touch Her and Die vibes
Fated Mates
High Heat
The Orc's Winter Prize is a high-heat, standalone monster romance novella with a Happily Ever After. It is the first book in the Brides of the Citadel Orcs series.
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Praise For The Series
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The tribute ... ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Loved it !! what a great start for this new series !! love Zara and Grimm... this is their story... a fast paced action rom/drama... the tribute.. the lottery... the hunt .. the chase... sanctuary bell and freedom.. this year, Zara's sister is chosen, she is sickly so, Zara takes her place... to run in the snow to reach the bell with a snow storm upon them... this is Grimm's year to chase a mate... but, he wants to help this years human make it to ring the bell.. he doesn't like this but, has no power to change it... the other warlord is all about breaking the human...who will get the human ? will she make it to the bell ? or ... so good !!!.
- Amazon reviewer
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Moment the Orc Caught Her⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Kaelen is The Fox—the ruthless Spymaster of the High Citadel. Calculated. Deadly. Untouchable.
At least, that’s what everyone believes… until a starving human girl slips past his defenses and steals his food right out of his tower. Nyx is fierce despite her shaking hands and empty stomach, driven by desperation and loyalty to the orphans depending on her. She’s not supposed to get caught—especially not by him.
Their first encounter?
Crackling. Electric. A perfect who-caught-who moment.
- Amazon reviewer
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Oooooo😍😍😍⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
This was a new author for me and I had not read the first two books in the series. Regardless of that…I LOVED THIS!!!!
The heroine was fanfreakingtastic!!!!!
And I loved the hero too…who wouldn’t love 8 ft of big hunky orc that would go Bersercker to protect you…then love you all night😉🤗🥰😍
- Amazon reviewer
STOLEN BY THE ORC SPYMASTER:
A STEAMY ORC ROMANCE
Brides of the Citadel Orcs Book 02
He hunted a traitor. He caught a mate.
KAELEN
I am the Fox. The Spymaster of the High Citadel. I see everything, know everything, and trust no one. When supplies start vanishing from my tower, I set a trap for a spy. I didn't expect to catch a tiny, starving human thief.
She is small, fragile, and defiant. She steals my food and challenges my authority. I should punish her. Instead, I want to feed her, keep her, and ruin her for anyone else.
NYX
I didn't want to steal from the most terrifying Orc in the Citadel. I had to. The orphans in my care were starving, and the Spymaster’s tower was the only place left to hit. Now I’m snowed in with a seven-foot-tall monster who looks at me like I’m his next meal.
But there’s a real traitor in the Citadel, and when they come for me, the Spymaster will have to make a choice: his duty, or the woman who stole his heart.
STOLEN BY THE ORC SPYMASTER is a standalone monster romance novella. It features a scarred, possessive hero, a "touch her and die" vibe, and a snowed-in forced proximity setup that leads to steam, creative anatomy, and a guaranteed HEA.
Tropes: ❄️ Snowed In / Forced Proximity 🐺 Grumpy Spymaster x Sunshine Thief 🔥 Size Difference 💀 "Touch Her and Die" 🖤 Scarred Hero 🌶️ Primal/Rut Instincts
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MATED TO THE ORC BERSERKER:
A STEAMY BODYGUARD MONSTER ROMANCE
Brides of the Citadel Orcs Book 03
I came to the Citadel to negotiate a treaty. I didn't expect to be claimed by the silent beast assigned to protect me.
I am Lady Isolde Valerius, a diplomat of the Southern Coalition. My weapon is a quill, my armor is silk, and my purpose is peace. I have trained my whole life to walk into a den of monsters without flinching.
But nothing prepared me for him.
General Rorik is known as "The Breaker." He is eight feet of scarred muscle and lethal silence, a berserker who crushes armies with his bare hands. He looks at me like I am made of glass, something fragile he is terrified to touch.
When a surprise siege shatters the peace talks, Rorik becomes my only hope for survival. Cut off from the fortress, we are forced to flee into the frozen hell of the Dead Lands.
Now, stripped of my titles and trapped in a cave with a warrior fighting his own primal instincts, the diplomat’s mask is slipping. The cold is killing me, and the only heat for miles is the massive body of the orc who has sworn to keep me safe.
Rorik believes he is a monster. He fears the "Battle Rut" that turns him into a mindless engine of destruction. But as the enemy closes in, I realize the monster might be exactly what I need.
And I might be the only one who can tame him.
Mated to the Orc Berserker is a high-heat, high-stakes monster romance featuring a silent, scarred hero and the brilliant human diplomat who steals his heart. Expect a grumpy/sunshine dynamic, massive size difference, forced proximity survival, and a possessive hero who will burn down the world to save his mate.
Tropes:
🖤 Silent & Scarred Hero (He thinks he’s unworthy)
📜 Diplomat Heroine (Steel wrapped in silk)
❄️ Forced Proximity (Snowed in/One Bed survival)
🛡️ Bodyguard Romance (Touch her and die)
📏 Massive Size Difference
🔥 Primal "Battle Rut"
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CLAIMED BY THE ASH WARLORD:
A STEAMY PARANORMAL ORC ROMANCE
Brides of the Citadel Orcs Book 04
He burns with a fever that kills. She’s the only one cold enough to survive him.
Torin is an Orc Warlord of the Ash-Born, a refugee leader fleeing a tyrant from the deep tunnels. He is made of obsidian skin and magma veins, a creature of volcanic heat who burns everything he touches.
But on the frozen surface, his internal fire is killing him. Locked in quarantine, wracked by the delirious heat of the Ash Fever, he prepares to die rather than incinerate the fragile humans trying to save him.
Then she walks in.
Elara has spent her life being the fragile one. The sick human girl. The burden. But the experimental treatments that saved her life left her with a secret: her skin runs colder than winter ice. When the massive Ash Warlord collapses, she is the only healer who can touch him without blistering.
Torin tries to push her away. He knows the danger of the Ash Fever and the primal, mindless Rut that follows. But Elara refuses to leave. She isn’t afraid of his fire; she’s drawn to it.
As assassins close in and the fever strips away Torin’s control, the Healer and the Warlord discover a bond that defies biology. He needs to be cooled. She needs to be warmed. And when the beast takes over, he doesn't just want to be healed...
He wants to claim.
CLAIMED BY THE ASH WARLORD is a steamy monster romance novella featuring a massive Orc Warlord and the courageous human healer who brings him to his knees.
This book features:
🔥 Size Difference (Massive Orc vs. Tiny Human)
🔥 Healer & Patient (Forced Proximity in Quarantine)
🔥 "Touch Her and Die" (Literal fire protective vibes)
🔥 Grumpy x Sunshine (Stoic Warlord vs. Resilient Healer)
🔥 Fated Mates (Fire & Ice Soulbond)
🔥 Guaranteed HEA with NO cheating
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TAMED BY THE ORC BEASTMASTER:
A PARANORMAL ORC WARRIOR ROMANCE
Brides of the Citadel Orcs Book 05
A feral beastmaster. A disciplined soldier. Trapped in the lethal dark, the only rule is survival.
Dravek knows only the deep tunnels. As the Beastmaster of the Ash-Born, he prefers the company of his magma-hounds to the treachery of people. He is fire and instinct, a scarred warrior living on the edge of the Blood Rage.
But when a tunnel collapse drops a human female into his territory, his feral nature shifts. She shouldn't belong in his brutal world, yet she smells like winter rain and relief. His first instinct is to hunt. His second is to claim.
Captain Lena Solis lives by protocol. Order is her shield against a chaotic world, and her crossbow is her only friend. But when a reconnaissance mission goes dreadfully wrong, she falls into a nightmare of subterranean heat and monsters.
Her only hope of survival is a massive, glowing-eyed Orc who looks at her with terrifying hunger. He is chaos personified, shattering every regulation she holds dear.
Trapped miles beneath the surface with an army of corrupted soldiers closing in, Lena must do the unthinkable: trust the beast to save her. But as the primal heat of the Rut takes hold of Dravek, the greatest danger might not be the monsters in the dark... but the fire consuming them both.
Tamed by the Orc Beastmaster is a high-heat monster romance featuring a grumpy-sunshine dynamic and a guaranteed HEA. It is Book 5 in the Brides of the Citadel Orcs series.
Includes:
Opposites Attract
Forced Proximity
Battle Couple
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