Sionnach Wintergreen has a new MM paranormal historical fantasy romance out, Love Songs for Lost Worlds book 3: Infernal Hope. And there’s a giveaway!
Ex-necromancer Frank Hope risked his life to help his demon lover Kasimir return to his homeland, a dimension humans call Hell and Kasimir calls the Eternal Realmâa beautiful medievalesque land. Now, because Kasimir is the heir apparent to a vast, wealthy kingdom, the two live in luxury in a palace by the sea. But darkness haunts them.
Necromancers, humans sworn to capture and slay demons for Earthâs energy corporations to use as fuel, continue to strike the Eternal Realm. Strife between the Eternalsâ kingdoms grows as well.
When war breaks out with a neighboring land, Frank and Kasimir are forced to make hard choices that threaten their relationshipâand even their lives. Is their love truly meant to be? Will the universe that once smiled upon them turn against them?
This is the final book in the Love Songs for Lost Worlds trilogy and combines elements of fantasy, paranormal, and gay romance within the framework of an alternate 1980s world.
Warnings: Violence, gay bashing, suicidal ideation, foul language, explicit sex, light bondage, vomiting, suicide attempt and sexual assault
About the Series:
Kasimir, a demon boy, secretly watched a human boy, Frank through an interdimensional window. While Kasimir struggled with an abusive father, Frank grieved his fatherâs death. Little Kasimir watched…and fell Iâm love.
Years later, Frank, who always felt like a loser, discovers he has a special powerâcommanding demons. Thatâs a valuable skill to corporations like DemonCo who slay and process demons to be used as fuel. When fate brings Kasimir and Frank together, they meet as enemies, but Kasimir believes they are destined to be lovers.
With themes of redemption, courage, and true love, this paranormal fantasy series is set in an alternate 1980âs Texas and the mystical Eternal Realm.
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Book One | Book Two
Giveaway
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Excerpt
Palace of the Kingdom of the Onyx Moon
Kasimir
I hold Frank in the dark. He still has dreams of his former life, nightmares. He doesnât usually wake up, he just fights things in his sleep, moving jerkily and making unintelligible noises. I put my arms around him and snuggle him against my chest. After a few minutes, he relaxes.
I relax, as well. I hate whatever things lurk in his past that disturb him so. We are living a beautiful life with each other. He seems happyâecstatic even. But when he sleeps, heâs still pursued by whatever things haunt him.
Things haunt us here, but he is unaware of them.
He doesnât know the Vanishings have increased, or that we stopped going to the village because the animosity toward him there had begun to worry me. When someone calls him a Necromancer, he corrects them happilyââex-Necromancer.â He doesnât realize that doesnât matter to nearly everyone here. To my mother, Rahvel, Bedon, Varalica, and me, heâs a hero. To everyone else, heâs still a villain. And I know that would break his heart.
Iâve instructed Bedon and Varalica not to discuss the Vanishings in front of Frank. Heâs blissfully unaware of how dangerous it is to live beyond the palaceâs shields.
The only things he fears are in his dreams, and I will have it that way for as long as possible.
So I hold my beloved, and press my lips to his head, his face, and tell him âIâm here,â in hopes my words create a lifeline to the pleasures he loves so much in our world.
I canât fully partake in those pleasures myself. I love Frank dearly, but I canât relax here like he does when heâs awake.
Iâm free of my betrothal and want to frolic with Frank for as long as I can. I live in fear of the next time my father wants to forge alliances with my hand. Although Iâm allowed a measure of say in such things, I still fear confrontations with my father. Frank has my heart, will always have my heart, but I worry how long our freedom will last.
However much I love being here with Frank, I never wanted this. When I Vanished from the Eternal Realm, when Frank summoned me, I was terrified. Once I learned I would not be processed for fiendium but would be his familiar, instead, I was actually happy. Not only was I with the man I had fallen in love with when we were children, I no longer had to worry about being king. I didnât have to deal with my fatherâs constant mocking. All I had to do was love Frank.
Now, itâs all back on my shouldersâall of the responsibility, all of the abuse, and the prospect of being married off to someone else. Sometimes, I almost wish he hadnât saved me. I wish he had gone to Eden and let me die.
I canât tell him any of that. Heâs haunted by enough without my adding worries. For now, thereâs only us and our love.
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Next day – The Kingâs Beach
Frank
I flop down on our blanket. âI donât know if Iâll ever come again,â I tell Kasimir. âIâm all out.â
Kasimir turns over, his dazzling eyes alight with mischief. âTwenty minutes from now youâll be all over me again.â
âYeah, wellâŚokay. But right now, I feel completely drained.â
âSo do I. I wish it were lunchtime already. Iâm famished!â He lifts up on one elbow. âYou seemed to quite enjoy that sparkling wine yesterday. Would you like me to ask Bedon to get some more of that for us?â
Before I can answer, a man flies from the cliff above us and lands neatly next to us. Heâs wearing the colors of the king, black and emerald green. Livery, I think Iâve heard Kasimir call it. I think heâs a messenger. His skin is darker than Kasimirâs, almost bronze, and his bat wings are nearly black. Like all of the eligos, heâs striking and handsome. And again, I feel like the luckiest guy alive, because Kasimir, surrounded by men who all look like underwear models, has chosen me.
It seems so weird now to think I was ever a Necromancer. That I ever worked for DemonCo and thought about killing Eternals to make fiendium. The human world runs on fiendium, on the lives of the eligos and all of the other inhabitants of this world. Itâs just a world, like ours, but we somehow decided it was ours to pillage and justified our greed by saying they were demons, evil incarnate, when theyâre actually just people and animals from another world.
I catch my snap, then. I havenât actually been listening to what Mr. Bronze has been saying, but Kasimir stands up, raining sand, with an alarmed expression on his beautiful face. âI see,â says Kasimir. âI need to change clothesâŚ.â
âWear your armor. They leave in an hour.â He turns toward the cliff and raises his wings as if to fly. âOh,â he faces Kasimir again. âHe said to bring your pet monster.â With that he flaps his wings and flies back toward the cliff.
Awww. Kasimirâs asshole fatherâs term of endearment for me. Great. What now? âWhat was that all about?â
âWe need to fly back to the palace,â says Kasimir. His wings shoot out behind him. They look like giant hawkâs wings, feathered instead of webbed like most other eligos and copper striped with gold. Theyâre breathtaking. It doesnât matter how fucking awesome they are, however, I still hate flying. I endure it, but it still makes me feel faint. I hate heights, which kind of sucks when the love of your life has wings.
âWhatâs going on?â
He spreads his arms so I can hug him while he carries me. âFather is confronting an army from the Kingdom of the Red Moon. He wants us to ride with him.â
Author Bio
Iâm Sionnach (prounced SHUHN ukh) and Iâm a trans male author of romance and fantasy. Most of my books are gay romances because theyâre so much fun to write. Opposites attract is my favorite trope with hurt/comfort right behind it. Few things are as fun to me as bringing men to life and pushing them into each otherâs arms. I love happily ever afters and believe true love is absolutely real.
Before I started writing full time, I volunteered as a grant writer for animal rescue nonprofits. I love animals, and they inevitably find their way into my stories. I share my life with my husband and seven spoiled cats. Iâm also the emotional support human to a crazy husky. He/him
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