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Mortal Skin


A Romance Novel


Book 1 of the Folk Series


Subgenres & Tropes:

  • Paranormal Romance,
  • Fae Romance,
  • Dark Romance,
  • M/M Romance,
  • Enemies to Lovers
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This book is for you if you're into...

  • Dark fae worlds with cruel beauty and dangerous politics
  • Mortal meets assassin prince romance with trust issues and obsession
  • Stories where the Folk are seductive, eerie, and never fully safe
Publisher Description

I first saw the Folk when I was a little boy. When they started appearing in my garden, with their unnatural, cruel beauty and honeyed words and veiled taunts. I grew up with big green eyes watching me from the forest. Whispers from the trees. Shimmering skin darting between the bushes. Black creatures always lurking in the shadows.

While they were here, I thought nothing of them. It wasn't until they were gone that I realize it wasn't… normal.

But it isn't until I'm twenty-one, when my life is in ruins, that they come back to take me away. They say I'm not fully mortal. They say I should be among them. The Unseelie Ruler wants me on her land for reasons no one will explain to me, but it's her aloof, painfully beautiful son who captures my attention and refuses to let go.

The cold, black-eyed assassin prince who strikes fear into the hearts of all Folk. Who I've been warned about, repeatedly. Who watches me always.

I don't trust the Folk, so I ignore their fearful advice to stay away from him. I ignore all of them except him, despite everything telling me that he can't be trusted—that he's just as bad as the rest of them, that he's playing games with me, the clueless mortal held here against his will.

But I want him.

Mortal Skin is the first in a mm fae romance trilogy about a dark fae assassin prince and a mortal who is thrown into the cruel world of the Folk.

Warning: This m/m love story contains explicit sexual content and is not suitable for young readers. It also contains depictions of violence and deals with the death of a close family member. This trilogy will follow the same couple who get their HEA eventually, but book one ends on a cliffhanger.

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