Coiled by the Serpent Lord

Anthropologist Elijah Foster ventures deep into the restricted jungle in search of a forgotten serpent temple. He expects ruins, folklore, and carvings weathered by time.

He does not expect the stone to breathe.

The deeper he travels, the stranger the jungle becomes, shifting shadows, twisting symbols, vibrating stone, and a heavy, intoxicating scent that warps thought and desire. When Elijah reaches the central altar, the ancient temple awakens, sealing him inside a chamber that has not opened for a human in generations.

Something stirs beneath the earth: a vast, coiled deity of living stone and scale, older than the forest and hungry for a vessel. The Serpent Lord recognises him instantly, responding to Elijah’s presence with primal certainty and a heat that sinks beneath his skin.

What begins as an archaeological survey becomes a sacred claiming. Elijah’s body changes. His senses sharpen. The earth listens when he breathes. And the ancient god beneath the temple whispers promises of purpose, destiny, and devotion that no mortal logic can withstand.

The jungle did not mislead him.

The local legends were true.

Elijah wasn’t meant to study the Serpent Lord.

He was meant to belong to him.

A dark MM eldritch monster romance featuring jungle temples, ancient deities, ritual claiming, transformation, sensory overwhelm, and the slow, inevitable surrender of a man chosen by a god.

Expect: MM monster romance, eldritch deity, serpent lord, jungle temple horror, ritual claiming, ancient god, dark sci fi fantasy, biological transformation, chosen vessel, heat and devotion, sacred jungle myth, obsessive entity, living stone creature, MM eldritch romance, forbidden temple.