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He didn't mean to fall through the world. But some crossings choose you.
Cade Harlan came to the Olympic Peninsula to disappear. Divorced, broke, a failed writer with nothing left to lose and no one who'd notice he was gone. He was barely surviving his own life before he reached into a stream where the water ran perfectly, impossibly still, and the world folded around him.
He lands in a world beneath the world. Ancient tunnels. Caverns glowing blue-green with bioluminescent fungus. A civilization built in stone and silence by women who aren't quite human: tall, dark-eyed, with long furred ears that miss nothing. They call themselves the Briarborn. They have never seen anyone like Cade. And the woman who found him bleeding in the dark, the one who moves like a predator and speaks in a language that sounds like music, doesn't know what to do with him either.
Briar has more important things to worry about than a lost human. Three of her Lodges are dying. Food stores are running out. Something in the deep tunnels is getting worse, and no one above the rank of scout is allowed to say its name. She doesn't have time for a man who can't speak her language, has never held a weapon, and watches her with a patience she finds more unsettling than any blade.
It's the human who makes her feel like she might, for once, want to stay still.
A slow-burn portal fantasy romance about two people, one who fell through the world and one who's been holding it up, learning at last to let themselves be found.
Genre: HaremLit
Cade Harlan came to the Olympic Peninsula to disappear. Divorced, broke, a failed writer with nothing left to lose and no one who'd notice he was gone. He was barely surviving his own life before he reached into a stream where the water ran perfectly, impossibly still, and the world folded around him.
He lands in a world beneath the world. Ancient tunnels. Caverns glowing blue-green with bioluminescent fungus. A civilization built in stone and silence by women who aren't quite human: tall, dark-eyed, with long furred ears that miss nothing. They call themselves the Briarborn. They have never seen anyone like Cade. And the woman who found him bleeding in the dark, the one who moves like a predator and speaks in a language that sounds like music, doesn't know what to do with him either.
Briar has more important things to worry about than a lost human. Three of her Lodges are dying. Food stores are running out. Something in the deep tunnels is getting worse, and no one above the rank of scout is allowed to say its name. She doesn't have time for a man who can't speak her language, has never held a weapon, and watches her with a patience she finds more unsettling than any blade.
It's the human who makes her feel like she might, for once, want to stay still.
A slow-burn portal fantasy romance about two people, one who fell through the world and one who's been holding it up, learning at last to let themselves be found.
Genre: HaremLit
Used availability for David Sung's The Warm Dark