As twilight falls and you’re meandering home, you encounter a troupe of travelers parking rickety wagons beside the wood. Harnesses jingle and bells jangle as they heft golden platters and tables from under glimmering tarps.
You squint in the murky gloom, striving to pinpoint details that flicker and flit around the travelers. As you venture near, is that a silver feather, a flash of fang… a glint of knife?
Within the span of a single breath, a man is suddenly standing near. He offers you a winsome smile, immaculately agleam, and on his palm: a slice of the strangest fruit. It’s like nothing you’ve ever seen.
Do you want a taste?
It’s only for the brave, he says. The dreamers, the ones who dare.
You have only to choose your flavor:
- gothic, romantic, and emotional, with a kneeling girl and songs and knives. You’ll share a cottage with the man who killed your family… step into The Assassin: A Love Story
- gothic, romantic, and whimsical, with books and wings and goblins. You’ll be given golden wings every night to explore the world of the man who breached the castle where you’ve been imprisoned your entire life… enter Wishes and Whispers and Sibilant Hisses
- gothic, romantic, and darkly cursed, with claws and fangs and roses. You’ll be killed every night but wake every morning to the same beautiful boy injured beneath your roses… fall into Roses and Bruises and Love
Fear not to devour to your heart’s content, Darling Mortal. More delights will come.
Sonya Lano 