Here's S Rodman's "Shadow King." It's the second novel in the Shadowmen series.
["I’ve summoned a shadow king from another realm.
In my defence, he burned my flat down, destroyed my 90s emo record collection, and tried to use me as bait to get my best friend killed. He had it coming.
What I did not expect was for him to be so insufferably, unreasonably, categorically attractive. Or for the binding to work quite so well. He's trapped in the human world until I decide to let him go.
I'm not in a hurry.
His name is Dis. As in discord, disillusion, dismay, disaster.
I call him Disney. He hates it.
He calls me Little Witch. I don’t entirely hate it.
He is the most dangerous thing I have ever summoned. He was the weapon that carried out a coup in the Shadow Realm. He has powers that make grown shadow beings step carefully around him. He is ancient and controlled and furious about his current situation in ways he is too dignified to fully express.
He's also stuck in my flat above a coffee shop in Bristol until further notice.
This is either the worst idea I have ever had or the best.
Probably both."]
Bonding with your "worst enemy" and the fiercest shadow king in all the realms by watching British Baking Off. While said shadow king critiques the contestants choices like it's actual war and accidentally reveals more than he originally intended, including his utter gentlemen-y-ness. While Felix slowly lowers his walls (to the shadow king and the most cheerful person in all of existence) and slowly becomes *shudder* wholesome.
These two had soooo much more in common than either of them were prepared for. So much dark baggage’s and heavy trauma. So much nemeses validation and safety. They found it together, all of the fluffy cuteness and home-ness. Falling in love so fast and seemingly so sudden that it knocked them off their feet (figuratively).
I canNOT wait for the next book. If anyone deserves at HEA, it's the cute little cult-survivor bunny. And it’s obsessed and utterly hopelessly in love at first sight shadow lord.
Trigger Warnings: parental estrangement, reference to child abandonment, reference to being thrown out of family home, exile and banishment, home invasion, violence, poverty and financial difficulties, captivity, illness, and more.
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