Under Gorse and Stone

Here's Lily Morton's latest: "Under Gorse and Stone."

["Cary Sutton isn’t surprised when his boyfriend walks out on him during a holiday in Cornwall at Christmas. It’s far from the first time that someone's accused him of being cold — both inside and out. Cary’s spent his whole life feeling like he’s separated from the world by a sheet of glass. Nothing touches him. Nothing moves him.

Which is why it’s so strange to find himself drawn to a small Cornish beach and the man he meets there. Sigurd Arvesen is handsome and charming, but he also holds a secret — one that’s big enough to overturn Cary’s whole world.

Sigurd is a centuries-old dragon, and Cary is his mate.

Whisked into Sigurd’s magical world, Cary meets strange and wonderful creatures that he’s only ever read about in books. The mystical realm is both enchanting and dark, but even scarier are the warm feelings that Sigurd brings out in Cary.

What will happen when Christmas Eve dawns and Cary must go home?"]

I’ve dreamed of writing a book like this for so long. Hidden ruins that are thinned vails to a different, magical world. A world that you belong to, one that remembers you even if you don’t remember it, a world that loves and accepts all for the weird and strange parts of yourself that you’ve never been able to explain. Plus fated love. Allll of the yes. 

It was magical in all of the ways, eyes wide open to old tales and new loves. New friends, old loves, sales of fantasy come alive. It was beautiful and filled deeply with Norwegian and Viking history. Plus tales of Arthur and Merlin. 

These two were beautiful as hell. Instantly drawn to each other, magic alive in the air around them, everyone knowing what they were/are to each other, even if Cary didn't see it yet. It was deep and adorable and spicy, all a perfect balance wrapped up in a Christmas bow.

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