20 October 2026 · Kindle Unlimited
Of Bramble and Bone
20 October 2026 · Kindle Unlimited
The god in the Bramblewood has killed more people than the village has graves. He has been waiting three hundred years for the one woman who was never afraid of the dark — and whose voice, it turns out, he cannot refuse.
Vivienne is a healer with steady hands and a folded-small life. When the only person who ever loved her is dying, she walks into the wood and offers herself to the god inside it.
He accepts. He gives her three rules — don't say his name, don't seek him after dark, don't touch — and a door she is free to walk out of whenever she likes. It is the first kindness anyone has shown her in thirty years, and it is the most frightening. She could have survived a cage. She has no idea what to do with a choice.
What neither of them understood when she made the bargain: the voice in her throat does not only heal. It reaches into ancient wood and commands it. The most patient, most terrible thing in a hundred miles obeys her, and has been obeying her since she was a child who walked into his dark unafraid.
Now a cold is building in the north. It knew Vivienne before she was a healer, before she was small, before her own memory was taken from her one careful piece at a time. It has her mother's voice. And the only thing standing between her and the thing that made her is a monster who has sworn he will die before he becomes one more hand that decides her fate for her.
Patience is hunger that learned to sit still.
Book One of the Of Bramble and Bone series. Open-door dark romantasy — two on-page intimate scenes; the consummation is explicit (~4/5), rendered in a literary register. Content notes at lunaaslikolcu.com.
- Publication
- 20 October 2026
- Genre
- Dark romantasy