City by the Flowers series
Dark fantasy M/M
In a fantasy mesoamerican world, the gods meddle in the affairs of humans. These novellas feature god/human relationships that do not end in HEAs.
I hope you enjoy them anyway, but please understand that these are not traditional romances. They’re more fantasy m/m novellas with strong romance and erotic content.
As a prince, Ahmiki knows that his purpose in life is to serve their city and help its people find prosperity. Until the night that he is named as the living representative of the god Teska’atl, to be sacrificed at the end of the year. Ahmiki has to endure one year of humiliating rituals, unpleasant ceremonies, and a fraught political landscape.
At least he can take some comfort in the handsome and strangely unbowed slave who has been assigned to him…
Tekokwa runs. He runs from his past, he runs from his future. He runs from himself.
He runs so far from civilization that he should be the only human around, but instead he finds himself living with Kwaotli, a mysterious young man who is one contradiction upon another. He’s a spoiled lordling one moment, a humble weaver the next. He tells stories like nobody Tekokwa has ever known, and yet won’t share his own. And above all, his moods swing: from fun and carefree to manic and angry.
Despite everything, Tekokwa can’t defend himself against Kwaotli’s advances. Kwaotli seems determined force Tekokwa to face himself, to let out the darkness that Tekokwa has tried so hard to suppress all his life.
A Coward, A Warrior is a 30k novella with no happily ever after.
Sekwistli’s entire life revolves around sacrifice. He gives his blood to beg for rain, for the harvest, for prosperity. He sacrifices for their once flowering city. He sacrifices for the good of their dying land.
He sacrifices for himself.
After a night of sacrifice goes too far, he meets a blind healer who attempts to heal him of more than just his physical ills. But sacrifice is ingrained in Sekwistli’s soul.
In Pain, In Pleasure is a 42k fantasy novella featuring some dark themes. This m/m love story does not include a happily ever after.
Prince Ahmiki knows that he’s useless in comparison to his brothers. He refuses to marry, he can’t help with governing, and he doesn’t want to be a priest. All he does is waste time with poetry and song.
Things change after an encounter with a strange young man, and the tragedy that befalls the family soon after.
A Poet, A Prince is a 10k prequel story to In Life, In Death, about Ahmiki’s youth and how he finds the conviction he needs to become a man.