Lured by the Glade Sentinel

Exiled beyond the ward-stones with his heat rising and no hope of survival, Erynn expects the forest to kill him.

Instead, it guides him.

The trees bend out of his way.

The vines shift around his footsteps.

And a trail of glowing moss leads him deeper into a forbidden glade where an ancient guardian waits.

The Sentinel, part stone, part vine, part living magic, watches him with patient intelligence. As Erynn’s fever intensifies, so does the forest’s response: pollen thickens the air, runes awaken on the stones, and the glade begins to pulse in time with his heartbeat.

He came here to die.

The forest has chosen something else.

A dark MM fantasy romance of sacred forests, living vines, ritual devotion, and the slow, inevitable bond between a desperate omega and the ancient being who refuses to let him fall.

Expect: MM monster romance, ancient forest guardian, sentient vines, dark fantasy romance, forbidden glade, omega exiled, sacred forest magic, chosen vessel, plant creature, ritual transformation, living stone sentinel, pollen haze, eldritch forest