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The Briar and the Blight
(2024)(The first book in the Song of Bastards series)
A novel by JB Trepagnier
I'm one of Guttertown's dirty secrets in more ways than one.
Nestran is run by the Barons. They don't care about Guttertown except for the women when they want to cheat on their wives. Our streets are full of their unwanted children. Our mothers tell us to stay away from them and frankly, we all hate them. But eventually, someone we love gets sick and we need their help.
That's when they get you. Their help comes with a price and they own you after that. The men usually end up in their armies and the women? They are forced to work in the brothels and send their fathers a cut of their profits.
I want nothing to do with that. I've worked hard to learn a craft and build up a business. But now my mom is sick and she needs the best healers in Nestran. I have to approach my father, but I've been living a dangerous lie for pretty much my entire life and this could expose me.
You see, my name isn't Lance. It's Lucy. I've been pretending to be a boy so I don't have to finance my father's lush lifestyle on my back if it ever came down to it. My father and another Baron aren't looking for new men for their army. They want their own personal assassin. I have a pretty good idea who I'm competing against once I was told what I needed to do to get my mother a healer.
Neco is already an accomplished assassin. And he's good enough to expose me as a girl. The question is, would he expose me to curry favor with his father, even though every single Guttertown bastard hates them?
This is a why choose romance. Lucy will end up with more than one love interest
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Nestran is run by the Barons. They don't care about Guttertown except for the women when they want to cheat on their wives. Our streets are full of their unwanted children. Our mothers tell us to stay away from them and frankly, we all hate them. But eventually, someone we love gets sick and we need their help.
That's when they get you. Their help comes with a price and they own you after that. The men usually end up in their armies and the women? They are forced to work in the brothels and send their fathers a cut of their profits.
I want nothing to do with that. I've worked hard to learn a craft and build up a business. But now my mom is sick and she needs the best healers in Nestran. I have to approach my father, but I've been living a dangerous lie for pretty much my entire life and this could expose me.
You see, my name isn't Lance. It's Lucy. I've been pretending to be a boy so I don't have to finance my father's lush lifestyle on my back if it ever came down to it. My father and another Baron aren't looking for new men for their army. They want their own personal assassin. I have a pretty good idea who I'm competing against once I was told what I needed to do to get my mother a healer.
Neco is already an accomplished assassin. And he's good enough to expose me as a girl. The question is, would he expose me to curry favor with his father, even though every single Guttertown bastard hates them?
This is a why choose romance. Lucy will end up with more than one love interest
Genre: Paranormal Romance
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