Paladin's Grace (The Saint of Steel, #1)

Kingfisher pairs a broken paladin whose god literally died with an anxious fugitive perfumer, and somehow makes it the coziest book about a serial beheader you will ever read. Stephen and Grace are both thirty-something, battered, and extremely bad at self-worth, which makes every bit of mutual care feel earned. Expect dry humor, on-page anxiety and PTSD rep, enthusiastic consent, and moderate open-door spice that lands emotional before it lands physical. Standalone-friendly first book in The Saint of Steel — you can stop here or keep reading the paladin squad.