Bastard's Measure

Exiled. Starving. Marked by the white hair of a house that threw him out.Twenty-one-year-old Lys Argent has one offer left: his labour, his body, and a practical willingness to be kept. The frontier smith who takes him is older, silent, and already running a forge short of hands. Thorne feeds him, works him, and rivets an iron collar shut at his throat.Bed. Board. Work.Then Lys invents a better ar...