Every hand that has ever touched Maeve's body left a scar behind.
The Eunuch slave camps have had her for four years. They left her with broken ribs, a dislocated shoulder, and the kind of starvation that eats muscle before fat. She escaped. She ran. She has been running on reflex for weeks, and when her legs finally give out at the base of a canopy tree, the only thought left in her is: at least no one is touching me.
She is wrong.
The Shield has deep burgundy skin, massive three-pronged symmetrical horns, and is the most dangerous thing in the canopy. He finds her there. His feral switch flips. He claims her with the same violent drive as every Shade, but something in his rut recognizes that she is breaking. Her body is too starved, too damaged, too depleted for the pregnancy to catch quickly.
So he keeps her.
Knotted. Mating. Continuously. While simultaneously hunting, foraging, cooking, and feeding her from his own hands. His seed sustains her, its vitality pulling her starved body back from the edge while he stays sealed inside her. He refuses to let her touch the ground. His wings carry her. His tail holds her upright. His body is putting her back together while it takes her apart.
She doesn't know what to do with a monster who mates her like he owns her while feeding her like she matters. She has never been kept alive on purpose.
Feral Keep is a full-length dark post-apocalyptic monster romance with explicit content, hurt/comfort, dubious consent, knotting, and a heroine who has to learn that being held is not the same as being caged.
Includes: captive monster romance · post-apocalyptic world · hurt/comfort · feeding kink · body restoration · camp survivor heroine · seed as sustenance · knotting · dubcon · earned HEA
Genre: Paranormal Romance
The Eunuch slave camps have had her for four years. They left her with broken ribs, a dislocated shoulder, and the kind of starvation that eats muscle before fat. She escaped. She ran. She has been running on reflex for weeks, and when her legs finally give out at the base of a canopy tree, the only thought left in her is: at least no one is touching me.
She is wrong.
The Shield has deep burgundy skin, massive three-pronged symmetrical horns, and is the most dangerous thing in the canopy. He finds her there. His feral switch flips. He claims her with the same violent drive as every Shade, but something in his rut recognizes that she is breaking. Her body is too starved, too damaged, too depleted for the pregnancy to catch quickly.
So he keeps her.
Knotted. Mating. Continuously. While simultaneously hunting, foraging, cooking, and feeding her from his own hands. His seed sustains her, its vitality pulling her starved body back from the edge while he stays sealed inside her. He refuses to let her touch the ground. His wings carry her. His tail holds her upright. His body is putting her back together while it takes her apart.
She doesn't know what to do with a monster who mates her like he owns her while feeding her like she matters. She has never been kept alive on purpose.
Feral Keep is a full-length dark post-apocalyptic monster romance with explicit content, hurt/comfort, dubious consent, knotting, and a heroine who has to learn that being held is not the same as being caged.
Includes: captive monster romance · post-apocalyptic world · hurt/comfort · feeding kink · body restoration · camp survivor heroine · seed as sustenance · knotting · dubcon · earned HEA
Genre: Paranormal Romance