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The Thorns We Wear Inside

by Amy Avery

A cursed bond inside an eerie castle

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A cursed bond inside an eerie castle

Raye’s curse makes living things crumble at her touch, while Mir is bound to a demon that demands blood. Their refuge is a castle where nearly everyone is trapped in time, and its store of magic offers a possible way to unravel both curses. As the demons work to keep their hosts bound, the women’s ability to touch one another complicates the danger surrounding them. The threat of approaching monster hunters adds pressure to a story built around shared captivity, supernatural bargains, and a forbidden connection. The book frames its fantasy through a sapphic romance and a pair of curses that link intimacy with peril.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • For readers interested in sapphic dark fantasy and romance.
  • For readers drawn to witches, demons, curses, and eerie castle settings.
  • For readers who enjoy forbidden love and forced proximity as fantasy-romance elements.

Themes

Curses and demonic bondsForbidden love and intimacyCaptivity and escapeMagic and danger

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Book overview

"A beautiful, brutal sapphic fantasy reminiscent of your favourite fairy tales, The Thorns We Wear Inside will indeed sink its thorns into you." --L.R. Lam, Sunday Times bestselling author of Dragonfall

For fans of For the Wolf and Nettle & Bone comes a dark, romantic fantasy about a witch, a monster, and the two parasitic demons who'll stop at nothing to keep them apart.


Raye is cursed. Living things crumble at her touch, drained by the demon who clings to her like a shadow. No wonder the townsfolk want her dead. Tormented and pursued, she seeks shelter in a mysterious castle.

The castle is an eerie place. Its residents lie trapped in time like flies in amber, all save one. Mir has a demon of her own, one that forces her to seek blood. When the two women begin to unravel their curses with the castle's trove of magic, their demons unite, refusing to let their hosts escape. Perhaps even more dangerously, Mir can bear Raye's poisonous touch: the first caress either of them has felt in years.

As monster hunters close in on the castle, Raye and Mir will have to break the binds of their twisted quadrangle before the past catches up with them.

Seductive and cinematic, this dark fantasy has teeth. Step into the castle. If you dare.

Featuring our favorite romantasy tropes: "will kill anyone but you," love quadrangle, morally grey, forbidden love, villain romance, forced proximity, poisonous touch, dark allure, redemption through love.
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