The Thorns We Wear Inside

For fans of For the Wolf and Nettle & Bone comes a dark, romantic fantasy about a witch, a monster, and the two parasitic demons who'll stop at nothing to keep them apart.

Raye is cursed. Living things crumble at her touch, drained by the demon who clings to her like a seductive, malevolent shadow. No wonder the townsfolk want her dead. Tormented and pursued, she seeks shelter in a mysterious castle at the heart of a forest.

The castle is an eerie place. Its residents lie trapped in time like flies in amber, all save one. Mir has a demon of her own, a creature that forces her to seek and crave blood. When the two women begin to use the castle's trove of magic to unravel their curses, their demons unite. The parasites refuse to let their hosts escape, and perhaps even more dangerously, Mir can bear Raye's poisonous touch: the first caress either of them has felt in years.

As monster hunters close in on the forest, Raye and Mir will have to break both the castle's curse and the binds of their twisted quadrangle before the past catches up with them.

Seductive and cinematic, this dark fantasy has teeth. Step into the castle. If you dare.

Featuring our favourite romantasy tropes: "will kill anyone but you," love quadrangle, morally grey, forbidden love, villain romance, forced proximity, poisonous touch, dark allure, redemption through love.