Here There Be Monsters
(2024)(The first book in the Republica Helvetorum series)
A novel by EC Garrett
BEWARE THE FOREST—THAT WAY MONSTERS LIE.
In the empire of Republica Helvetorum, magic is dangerous. When Elsing is accused of using witchcraft to commit murder, she’s convicted and sentenced to a fate worse than death....Elsing will be sacrificed to the Mountain Gods.
Every solstice, the town of Interlaken sacrifices someone to the Mountain Gods. In exchange, the cruel and horrible Gods leave the town alone, staying within the borders of their dangerous mountain home.
But where Elsing expects death, she instead wakes to three, mysterious males. The Mountain Gods are supposed to be monsters, but the only torture they have in mind is of a much more pleasurable kind…which means someone in Interlaken is lying, and they’re right. Someone from Interlaken is lying—her.
As Elsing grows closer to her new companions, the mystery of the mountain begins to unravel and dark truths come to light. Because what the Mountain Gods don’t know, might just kill them.
NOT ALL MONSTERS HAVE SHARP TEETH AND CLAWS.
NOTE: This is an intense and dark book featuring an MMMFF why-choose, power dynamics, violence and gore, sword-crossing (MM), sapphic romance (FF), graphic sex scenes, LBGTQIA+ characters, and genderfluid Gods. Please read the trigger warning list at the start of the book before reading or on EC Garrett’s website.
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