Genre:
Fantasy Romance
Themes:
Adventure / Survival
Against All Odds
Angsty
Camping / Glamping
Dark Fantasy
Fake Relationship / Marriage of Convenience
Family Relationships
Forced Proximity / Stranded Together
Hiking / Mountain Climbing / Outdoor Sport
Magic
Only One Bed
Opposites Attract
Quest / Treasure Hunt
Return to Hometown
Rich Girl / Poor Girl
Road Trip
Secret Crush
Slow Burn
Starcrossed
Starting Over
Supernatural Elements
Vacation / Travel
Heat Level:
Fade to Black (sex scenes are mostly implied and use euphemistic language)
Archetypes:
Adventurer / Explorer / World Traveler
Charity / Nonprofit
Immigrant / Refugee
Military
Soldier / Warrior
Sorcerer / Wizard / Alchemist
Geographic Location:
Fantasy or Fictional Setting
Setting:
Airplane / Train
Big City / Urban
Forest
Guest House / Airbnb
Hotel / Inn
Jungle / Rainforest
Military Base
Mountain
On the Road / Tour
Party
Sacred Space / Place of Worship
Wilderness / Outback
Sexual / Gender Identity:
Lesbian
Queer
Femme
The Forest at the Heart of Her Mage
By Hiyodori
The Forest reveals all: old scars, hidden guilt, and growing love.
After years of city life, Tiller is finally ready to revisit the magical forest where she grew up. But the forest has turned deadly, and Tiller has no magic of her own. To survive, she’ll need a bodyguard.
Tiller finds only one mage willing to escort her. A woman named Carnelian: a soldier with a pretty face and a dodgy reputation. Carnelian loves parties, drinking, flirting, big spending, and taking risks that others would find downright unthinkable. She’ll happily lead Tiller to the heart of the Devouring Forest.
But she won’t do it for free.
The two of them live in a country where magic-users like Carnelian labor under lifelong legal restrictions. The fastest ticket to greater liberty: getting married. Which is why Carnelian—known far and wide as the mage who no one would wed—demands Tiller’s hand in marriage as her payment.
Cautious, reserved Tiller never lets strangers invade her personal space. She’s horrified by the prospect of marrying a mischievous gambler. But she still needs Carnelian’s magic to overcome the wild monsters blocking the path back to her childhood home.
And the deeper they go in the forest, the greater the danger. Tiller will have to learn very quickly how to deal with the darker side of her would-be wife.
The Forest at the Heart of Her Mage is a slow-burn f/f romance with two polar-opposite heroines—both hiding enormous secrets—reluctantly engaged to be married for the sake of convenience. This novel takes place in the same contemporary fantasy world as The First and Last Demon and the Clem & Wist series, but can be read and enjoyed as a standalone story.