In This Iron Ground (Natural Magic #1)
Marina Vivancos
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
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· 49 ratings · 317 pages · Published: 03 Sep 2018
Instead, he finds the Salgado pack, and the earth beneath his feet shifts. Damien has seen the Salgado children in his school: Koko, who is in his class, and Hakan, two years older and infinitely unreachable. Damien is suddenly introduced into a world that had only ever existed in his imagination, where there is magic in the forest and the moon. He meets creatures that look like monsters, but Damien knows that monsters have the same face as anybody else.
Over the years, Damien and Hakan grow closer. First, just as friends and foster brothers in the Salgado house, and then into something heated and breathless when Damien joins Hakan at college. Despite what he may yearn for in the darkest part of the night, Damien knows, deep down in that bruised and mealy part of his core, that he’s not good enough to be part of the Salgado family, their pack. He’s not worthy of calling Hakan his home.
Even though he knows in the end it’ll hurt him, he’ll hold onto this for as long as he can.
CONTENT WARNING: This book contains themes of emotional and (nonsexual) physical child abuse and the subsequent emotional, cognitive, and behavioural impacts.
This story contains sexually explicit scenes between consenting adults and is meant for an adult audience.
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- gay romance 11
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- fantasy 9
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- angst 5
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- height difference 5
- contemporary 4
- college 4
- queer romance 4
- slow burn 4
- found family 4
- werewolves 3
- urban fantasy 2
- new adult 2
- magic 2
- tortured hero 2
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- indigenous mc 2
- high school 2
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- abuse 7
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- mental illness 4
- death / grief 3
- third party abuse 3
- past child abuse 2
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The 'Natural Magic' series
4.25 · 55 ratings
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