Sunday Snippet from my gay Victorian fae romance, Oak King Holly King – available now wherever fine books are found!
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Wren stared in silent horror at Butcher. The fur-lined cloak lay flung over the foot-board. The highwayman boots sat on the floor amidst the snow drift secrets, one half-fallen over the other. The long-beaked Venetian leather mask and the peaked cap with its feather had tumbled onto the counterpane beside Butcher. Butcher himself, by the eerie blue light of his own fae lantern, appeared deep in concentration, his handsome brow furrowed, his full lips pursed, his dark eyes intent on the page he held up before him. He sat with his knees bent, one laid out on the bed and the other upraised, the hem of his tunic far too short to disguise what lay between them despite his woollen hose. A few strands of his black hair had come loose from the leather cord at the nape of his neck and now tumbled down over his high, sharp cheeks like ribbons of rain.
All this would have formed a composition of admirable beauty, had Butcher not held Wren’s doom in his calloused fingertips.
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Oak King Holly King is a gay Victorian fae romance, available now wherever fine books are found!
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Sebastian Nothwell 