The Deep Path
Ashford sits at the edge of a cursed forest, walled and guarded and convinced the wall is what keeps it safe. The townspeople sleep soundly. The magistrate takes credit. No one asks what actually lives in the deep trees, because no one who goes that far comes back to tell them. Elias Marrin is twenty-one, the town's only healer, engaged to the magistrate's daughter, and quietly suffocating in a life built by people who love him. He has never complained. He has never left. When his grandmother summons him to her cottage deep in the forest, he packs more than she asked for and walks slower than he should. Something in the trees has been waiting for him. Elias is not coming home. A dark MM fantasy romance about captivity, desire, and the terrifying cost of finally being wanted for exactly what you are.