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Master of Salt & Bones

by Keri Lake

A dark contemporary romance with gothic trappings

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A dark contemporary romance with gothic trappings

Blackthorne Manor, a bone-built castle overlooking the sea, sets the scene for a romance shaped by curses, local suspicion, and the pull between two characters who see themselves as damaged and shunned. The central relationship turns the familiar rescue-fairy-tale idea on its head: the imagined knight is not a straightforward savior, and the story casts him as someone in need of rescue. Gothic imagery and forbidden attraction anchor this standalone contemporary romance.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers who enjoy contemporary romance with gothic settings and imagery.
  • Readers interested in forbidden romance and stories that rework fairy-tale rescue motifs.

Themes

Forbidden attractionCurses and social ostracismRescue and vulnerabilityGothic atmosphere

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Book overview

Meet the Devil of Blackthorne Manor ...

 

When I was a little girl, I dreamed a handsome knight would come and rescue me from my wretched mother. He'd ride up on his white steed and break the curse I've been fated to carry since the day I was born.

 

Funny how things changed over time. How the fairy tale twisted into something far more crooked, darker than I ever imagined.

 

In reality, my knight is scarred and broken, living alone in a castle of bones that overlooks the sea. He isn't searching for me. He never was.

 

Lucian Blackthorne is as cursed as I am, and equally shunned by the locals, the fishers of men, who believe him to be the devil in the flesh.

 

Perhaps he is, with the way his amber eyes draw me in, ignite me like an infernal blaze. And the sins he whispers in my ear are as wickedly intoxicating as the man himself.

 

Yet, his touch is heaven and his will is my weakness.

 

He calls us forbidden, an unsalvageable tragedy, with no happy end. Maybe we are. But in this story, he's the one who needs saving.

 

Master of Salt & Bones is a dark modern gothic contemporary standalone romance.

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