Description

When Citrine soldiers burn Katya’s village to the ground and slaughter her family, she thinks things can’t get any worse–but then they take her with them, enslaving her and forcing her to live out her worst nightmares. Escape is hard-won, and with what should have been her dying breath she summons a demon to exact her revenge. The strange thing is…she doesn’t die–instead, she wakes to find the creature she summoned caring for her and nursing her battered body back to health. Despite her growing feelings for demonic Cael, the price for her bargain must be paid, even if it has become a price she no longer wants to pay.

Cael is not a demon, but the little human who summons him seems to think he is. What he is is lonely, barely clinging to life, until he’s yanked from his world to Katya’s by an ancient and powerful spell. Something compels him to get close to her, to care for her, but what does that mean when as soon as the bargain is fulfilled he must leave his little Kat forever?

Content Warnings: enslavement (not active), FMC abused in her past, death of a partner and child (mentioned but not shown), death of an entire family (mentioned but not shown), loss of home due to wartime violence, illness and injury, mild blood play, murder, gore, desecration of corpses (the people were cruel and abusive in life), occult magic, foul language.

Tropes: Dual POV, deal with a demon, hurt/comfort, “you touched her and now you die”, tail play, size difference, unique monster equipment, fluids, mild anal play (FMC receives), forced proximity, one bed, on the run, HEA.