Here's Emory Sander's "The Elves and the Shoemaker." It's a novel the new multi-author series, The GriMM Tales.
["Can three lonely, wounded hearts make a whole?
Johan had resigned himself to spending his life alone. Until them. Until two sets of scared but fierce amber eyes peer at him through curtains of silky white hair, and Johan’s heart takes on a new beat. A beat he can’t ignore.
Despite escaping their captors, a dark cloud looms over Elias and Henrik’s heads. They were bought and paid for, after all.
However, their luck appears to change when they cautiously accept the offer of a roof over their heads from a kind but silent shoemaker. Only, it was meant to be a stopping-off point, a place to re-group before they start their new life. They had each other, and they were not supposed to fall for him.
Struggling to recover from invisible wounds, the two elves can’t always bear the weight of each other’s burdens. But maybe he can…
When it becomes the talk of the town that a local, unassuming shoemaker is selling elf-made shoes, will they be able to evade their captor once more?
More importantly, will they ever truly belong to themselves again?"]
This one was a lot less angsty than the others. Their love story was softer and safer. It was less dramatic and a faster burn. Their angst came from outside of the relationship (aka horrible, evil people (who have/will have karma visit them)).
...Until the outside-angst started to slowly poison their relationship, self doubt and old scars making themselves known. Then I cried (so did all three of them). But it's okay, we had lots of old friends helping them out, in one way or another.
It wasn't the most luxurious of HEAs, but without the Queen dying, I'm afraid most of our character's won't gets a perfect HEA, just a perfect for now one.
Trigger Warnings: situational and selective mutism, anxiety disorder, panic attacks, internal and external ableism, references to slavery and captivity, references to violence experienced during slavery, trapped in a confined space, violence, murder, death of parents, family abandonment, self-harm, and more.
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