Thornbound

I owed the Thornwood nothing. My family did.

When the debt collectors of Hallow's End come for what's theirs, they don't take coin. They take me — walked to the border of the cursed wood and handed over like payment on a ledger, forfeit to the thing that rules it.

He isn't what the stories promised. Corin Ashgrave is worse, and more beautiful, than any warning I was given: horned, silent, and terrifyingly patient, a warden bound to a realm that shouldn't still exist. He doesn't want my obedience. He wants to own the parts of me no one has ever bothered to ask for — my nights, my name, the future I was promised to another man to save my village.

I tell myself I hate him. I tell myself every night I stay is one night closer to going home.

But the wood doesn't let go of what it's marked, and neither does he. Every look is a claim. Every silence is a warning to the men who think they still have rights to me. And the treaty that's supposed to keep his kind and mine apart is the only thing standing between what he wants and what he's going to take.

I was supposed to be collateral. I was never supposed to be chosen.

Thornbound is a full-length, standalone Dark Monster Romance featuring a possessive, obsessive hero, a forbidden human-fae bond, and a forced-captivity arrangement that becomes something neither of them can walk away from. Guaranteed HEA. Intended for mature audiences (18+).

Tropes: Possessive Alpha • Monster Romance • Forbidden Bond • Forced Proximity • Captive-to-Lovers • Guaranteed HEA