Oleander
Scarlett Drake
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· Steam/Spice level: 4 of 5
Explicit open door [?]
· 14 ratings · 548 pages · Published: 01 Jun 2024

Caspien Deveraux was poison.
It took me years to realise that he hadn’t been born like that. He’d been cultivated and nurtured by a careful hand and a bitter heart. When I first met him, he was a bud. One primed to bloom beautifully and deadly. One I should have torn out at the root.
I loathed him. I loved him. And until him, I hadn’t known just how completely those two things could exist at once
Tagged as:
- contemporary 5
- enemies to lovers 4
- gay romance 4
- queer romance 4
- bisexuality 4
- queer awakening 4
- class difference 4
- cheating 4
- first person pov 4
- slow burn 3
- second chances 3
- anal sex 3
- angst 3
- betrayal 3
- forced proximity 2
- other man/woman 2
- high school 2
- rich hero 2
- working class hero 2
- tortured hero 2
- college 1
- male pov 1
- Add topics
- content warnings
- abuse 4
- third party abuse 2
- miscarriage / infertility 1
- past child abuse 1
- alcoholism 1
- geography
- british isles 1