They left me on the obsidian altar to freeze. The monster of the deep earth decided to forge me in his fire instead. I was supposed to be a simple transaction. A tithe of flesh and bone given to the Unseelie Lord to ensure the village’s harvest. I expected claws. I expected death. I didn’t expect him. He is a tectonic force of armored scales, jagged antlers, and molten-gold eyes. He doesn't want my death; he wants my marrow... moreThey left me on the obsidian altar to freeze. The monster of the deep earth decided to forge me in his fire instead. I was supposed to be a simple transaction. A tithe of flesh and bone given to the Unseelie Lord to ensure the village’s harvest. I expected claws. I expected death. I didn’t expect him. He is a tectonic force of armored scales, jagged antlers, and molten-gold eyes. He doesn't want my death; he wants my marrow. He shatters the iron chains binding me and drags me into the crushing, pressurized depths of his mountain kingdom. He tells me my human life is over. I am no longer a sacrifice. I am to be his vessel. As he feeds me the intoxicating, violent nectar of the deep, a terrifying transformation begins. My blood runs hot with liquid gold. My fragile human bones are reinforced by dark crystal. I am being rebuilt—forged—to withstand the tectonic weight of his primal possession. I should fight the change. I should hate the beast who stole me from the sun. But as the blood moon rises and his obsessive, suffocating heat surrounds me, the hunger in my newly forged body becomes impossible to ignore. The village sent a sacrifice. The mountain will birth a Sovereign. The Monster's Hearth is a high-heat, dark fantasy monster romance. It features a terrifyingly possessive Fae Lord, visceral physiological changes, size difference, and a heavy focus on primal breeding/pregnancy tropes resulting in a definitive Happily Ever After. For mature readers only. less
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