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 Hello kind friends!
You all helped me out with a children's book years ago, and I have returned to try and find a book I read prior to 2005. It's not too far off from the first Vampire Diaries books, but, uh, with immortal cannibals?

Note: I almost certainly got this from a public library between 1997 and 2005; I have no idea of what the cover was like, but it was almost certainly a pulp paperback romance novel. I don't think it's VC Andrews, but it definitely had the vibe. 

Setting: A large secluded historical home with gardens- I *think* it is a US Southern former slave plantation, it's definitely in the US, but I was in my mid teens when I read this and it's quite likely that I misread the setting. The time period is modern era -I assume it's at least after the 1960s but it might be as late as the 1990s. Cell phones were not present in the book.

Genre: Horror romance? Romance? Given when I read this, it could have been a romance novel aimed at adults or it might have been aimed at older teens. Generally, a pulpy sort of book. 

CONTENT NOTE: This book has cannibalism and incest. 

General plot: A young woman (our view point character and protagonist) takes a job( or for some other reason?) goes to live at a large rural home of stately history. She's a very Gothic heroine - her mom seemed to have no family and no history, and the protagonist is on her own. She goes to live in this large manor/plantation, where an stately old woman and two much younger, hot, brothers live together. The protagonist thinks they are grandsons of the old woman, but it's not clear. She feels oddly like this mansion/plantation home is somewhere she knows before, or should have been before. There's a strong Gothic tone to the setting - the protagonist is always overhearing cryptic conversations that don't make sense.

In the romantic plot, the two brothers are both attractive and seem to be attempting to woo the protagonist, but at least one of them seems to be having (somewhat kinky, bitey) sex with the matriarch character. The protagonist is confused and scared by this - she thought they were related??

The resolution of the plot is that BOTH the brothers are actually immortal, unaging, and under a curse - they were in a love triangle with a woman hundreds of years ago, and instead of handling it, they murdered/dueled each other and the woman they loved did some kind of magic/curse, so they are now immortal, and the three of them entered into a triad relationship. (The time setting for this MIGHT have been the Civil War?)

They are also cannibals??? There's a plot point where they also eat their girlfriend to survive, but uh, she somehow doesn't die?  

As time passed, the trio had a daughter, and when the daughter grew up, welp. The brothers started having a relationship with her - meaning that, in the present day, we are several generations into a cannibalistic, incestuous, undead threesome, all centered around this plantation house. And, of course, the protagonist is actually part of this family- the matriarch is her grandmother. Her mother was supposed to be the next in line for this triad, but she fled and made her own life elsewhere. (I cannot remember if the protagonist was born there and taken, or if she is the result of the mom having married someone else and he just happened to be out of the picture. - I suspect the former.) The brothers have magically summoned her back to the plantation home to continue the family together. 

The ending of the book is that the protagonist accepts her role, seems relieved to not have to choose between the brothers, they have not-super-explicit sex, and, in a time jump, is shown to have had a toddler who is playing in the gardens of this mansion with her fathers. 

Specific scene memories: 
-The protagonist, while eavesdropping, sees one of the hot brothers kissing and biting the neck of the older woman, who is clearly into it, but it's also kind of vaguely vampiric in tone and the protagonist can't figure out if she's actually being injured.
-One of the brothers, explaining the whole curse situation to the protagonist, proclaims "There is not even a word for what we are." Because, well, immortal brothers in a curse that makes them periodically eat their girlfriend. 
- I vaguely remember the protagonist is generally FINE with the ending, and feels calm and at peace with her unusual choices. 

I do not know if they book is GOOD, but I was trying to describe this plot to someone in a discussion of Gothic romance, and since I couldn't remember the book, I now feel compelled to try and find it to prove that I did not make it up.
 

 

[personal profile] inlovewithwords979
Hi everyone, I've forgotten a book i read a long time ago. I read it in Canada in english. It was a romance and fantasy novel that included a girl named Mage and her boyfriend named Adam. Mage had magical abilities. I believe the book was also a trilogy.

A few scenes I remember are:
A scene where she got angry and used her magic to roll a tire.

A scene where she wanted to have sex with him in a hotel but he wanted to wait for a better place to do it

(SPOILERS)
Near the end of the book Adam dies. (I dont really remember whether this happened in it or not but i think she was able to see Adam as a ghost after he died).

If anyone can remember the title that would be so helpful. Thanks!
[personal profile] soma_glacies
I'm looking for a book about a half fae half were'. (This book follows a lot of tropes so bear with it please.) She's taken by two men one turning out to be her cousin the other a family friend she learns of her heritage falls for the other shifter and subsequently gets kidnapped. The shifter she falls for is I believe a leopard half breed with different colored eyes. And the way that her cousin proves his case is by shifting in front of her.
[personal profile] rhimineecat71
Can't remember much of this book, just that the woman was given (?) by the gov to aliens as a volunteer (not sure though if she was just abducted) as part of the peace treaty. She caught the eye of the alien king because of her violet eyes. She also kinda belly dances later in the story while pregnant. Her husband the alien king's anatomy saved him from an assasination attempt where his heart is actually on the right side instead of left. I think this was part of a series, and despite my description, the book is actually more of a romance than an erotic book. Can someone help me find the title? Pls and thanks.
[personal profile] kisstheskittlez
I read a book a very long time ago and can remember basically nothing about it but that I loved it. I know this is gonna be a long shot but I gotta try. It’s a book about a witch with read hair and emerald geeen eyes. I know it wasn’t set in modern times, it had more of medical times. It was definitely a romance novel that my young teen eyes new nothing about when I read it haha. So there was a sex scene I’m pretty sure in a cave and maybe on the cave ceiling? And I’m sure the cover of the book was a bluish green witha picture of a red headed girl on the cover. Those or the things I’m pretty sure of. There might have been like some sort of council or government like school she was going to? I honestly don’t remember. I read it thinking it was gonna be just a nice witch book I borrowed from my great Grandma but it ended up being more. And unfortunately when she passed the book was nowhere to be found.

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