God of Shadows: Book 1
Coming June 1, 2026!
You are invited to be an ARC reader for this book.
There will be a map!
Because if it’s fantasy, there must be a map. The artist is Anna Leitensdorfer, and you can see her work here.
The heir to Visounty Tanmar has three lovers. One is a god. One is a monster. One is just right.
We’ve all read books where the main character falls in love with a handsome man who behaves like a complete jerk. But it’s OK, because they LOVE each other. I’m not going to pretend there’s never anything hot about that. But I have questions.
Can love excuse a abusive behavior? If you’re never going to love the jerk, can you forgive him? Does he deserve to be forgiven?
This book is my answer.
❦
On the night of his eighteenth birthday, Aurelian is kissed for the first time by a handsome prince. Two days later, a misunderstanding shatters his friendship with his family’s loyal equerry. When he receives a summons to serve at court, Aurelian seizes the opportunity to leave Tanmar and recent embarrassments behind for a year. The glamour and excitement of the capital city await him, not to mention the handsome prince.
Once at court, Aurelian falls prey to a curse of cruelty that haunts the royal family. Imprisoned by all-too-human monsters in a land where love between men is forbidden, his only allies are his horse and a capricious god who loves him in his dreams.
Aurelian’s choices will lead to love, or peace for Tanmar, but he can’t have both. If peace crumbles, the war that follows will be entirely his fault.
❦
If you read The Memorial Garden: An Interplanetary Bisexual Romance, you know what to expect from one of my books:
- A spicy, queer story.
- Characters trying to be good people while navigating bad relationships.
- Subverted tropes.
- Happy endings after dark middles.
- 100% AI-free prose and cover art—you are real, and so am I.
❦
What’s that funny character?
It’s Unicode 2766, also known as a fleuron, a floral heart or an Aldus leaf. Why is it here? Instead of using a # or an * for a section marker in books, I’m choosing a thematically appropriate Unicode characters for section markers in my books. It gives them a nice custom look, and Unicode characters are guaranteed to display properly no matter what you use to view them. If you want to nerd out over Unicode characters, check out the Wikipedia article. I decided that this character is as close as I’m going to get to the book’s pine cone and grape motifs. And it’s pretty.
❦
Content Warnings
Explicit sex, non-consensual sex, abusive relationships, animal mistreatment, angst, words you might have to look up.