The Uses of Illicit Art (Artisans #1)
Wendy Palmer
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· 8 ratings · 432 pages · Published: 01 Oct 2021
It's twenty years into the reign of Queen Victoria. The Agency for the Benefit of Registered Artisans has been established to help and protect magic-users and regulate their Artworks. The use of illicit Art is heavily punished.
The coldly self-possessed Kit Whitely is an Artisan whose specialty is opening doors and locks. That makes him very popular with a certain type of criminal, so he's hiding out in a remote Somerset village hoping for uninteresting times. He's starting to feel safe for the first time in his life.
Cheerful bounty hunter Alexander Locke has other ideas. He's obliviously barging into Kit's peaceful new life to arrest him for the use of illicit Art and drag him back to London. But he's a man of divided loyalties and so he's also intending to use Kit for illicit purposes of his own.
How much trouble could one pissant little thief give him, really?
An enjoyable alt-history (pseudo-Victorian) m/m fantasy fiction romance.
T/ References to past abuse.
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- gay romance 5
- enemies to lovers 4
- historical 4
- fantasy 3
- paranormal 3
- forced proximity 3
- third person pov 3
- tortured hero 3
- queer romance 2
- suspense 2
- dark romance 2
- victorian 2
- urban fantasy 2
- vengeance 2
- height difference 2
- anal sex 2
- high fantasy 1
- angst 1
- caretaking 1
- found family 1
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- past abuse 3
- past sexual abuse 3
- child sexual abuse 2
- torture of mcs 2
- religious trauma 1
- victim blaming 1
- third party abuse 1
- past child abuse 1
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The 'Artisans' series
4.50 · 8 ratings
length-long · angst · europe · suspense · vengeance · high fantasy · child-sexual-abuse · urban fantasy · height-difference · tortured hero · m-m · forced proximity · paranormal · third-person-pov · past-sexual-abuse · historical · anal sex · found-family · magic · torture-mcs
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