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Bride of Blackmere
by Cassia Marlowe
They call the lord of Blackmere a monster, and every bride ever bound to him lies buried in his grounds. So when Odette's father settles his debts by promising his overlooked daughter to the black-water estate no woman has ever left alive, she goes without weeping, because being wanted enough to pay a debt is closer to being wanted than she has ever come. She expects a monster. She finds Lucien: cold, exact, unbearably alone, and far more careful with her than a man who means to kill her has any reason to be. The valley says love him and die. Lucien says almost nothing at all, and keeps every door between them shut. But the mist is closing in, the year is turning, and the longer Odette lives in his silent house the more certain she becomes that the danger at Blackmere was never that its lord cannot love her. It is that he already might.
gothic and rain-dark, an aching fade-to-black slow-burn where the danger is how much he wants you
