Cinder (The GriMM Tales #5)
D.N. Bryn
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
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· Steam/Spice level: 4 of 5
Explicit open door [?]
· 13 ratings · 354 pages · Published: 02 Oct 2025
His place in the world is to keep his incompetent, destitute household afloat. It’s the only respectable thing he’s managed since his mother wasted her dying breath tasking him to do good, and the sins he’s stacked against that duty grow by the day—along with the bastards he’s stabbed and left for dead.
But while slinking through the royal matchmaker ball, Cin stumbles onto the prince mid-conquest. He’s whisked into a thrilling affair, as secretive as the magic that conceals his status and the feathers he leaves in his victim’s wounds. As Cin learns more of the prince’s familial burdens and perceived failures, his yearning delves beyond the prince's striking physique to his tender and attentive heart.
Cin’s nightly escapades are not going unnoticed by his family, though—not his time with the prince, nor his vigilante missions. Just as the King and Queen are presenting their own son’s hand in marriage like a trophy for the taking, they’ve offered a prize for whoever identifies the killer roaming their streets.
Caught between duty, desire, and something far darker, Cin fights for a future that doesn’t leave him trapped in someone else’s world—or their dungeons.
CINDER is a mid/high-heat M/M retelling with a transmasc, vigilante Cinderella. This novel is part of a series of interconnected Grimm fairy tales that can be read as standalones, each with its own Happy Ever After! Content includes familial emotional abuse, references to physical abuse suffered by side characters, one scene with story-relevant gore and mutilation, magical top surgery, and multiple spice scenes.
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The 'The GriMM Tales' series
4.04 · 132 ratings- Little Red Riding Hood by D.N. Bryn Book #1
- Zel by D.N. Bryn Book #2
- Hansel and Gerhardt by D.N. Bryn Book #3
- The Elves and the Shoemaker by D.N. Bryn Book #4
- Cinder by D.N. Bryn Book #5
- The Frog Prince by D.N. Bryn Book #6
- Rumpelstilzchen by D.N. Bryn Book #7
- Snow White and the Seven Little Miners by D.N. Bryn Book #8
queer · m-m · fantasy · magic · paranormal · explicit-open-door · third-person-pov · hurt-comfort · audiobook · length-medium · sweet-hero
The GriMM Tales reading order and complete book list ❯
