The Orc's Inn at Rosewood Hollow
**Primary genre:** Cozy Fantasy
Dreg, a legendary orc war-captain whose name made mercenaries desert their posts, has spent twenty years learning to break things—until she inherits a crooked little inn and discovers she has a gift for mending them instead. But when a blight begins to poison the forest that feeds her kitchen and the neighboring nobility come calling with swords and summons, she must decide whether the peace she's built is a life worth fighting for—or a dream that can't survive the world she left behind.
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