The Lyonesse Trilogy
A queer, kinky contemporary retelling of the legend of Tristan and Isolde, set in the same world as the New Camelot series.
0.5. SALT IN THE WOUND by Sierra Simone
SYNOPSIS
The first time I meet the devil, he knows my name.
The second time I meet him, the truth becomes clear: Mark Trevena is to be my husband.
No matter that we don’t know each other. No matter that he’s older than me; shameless and sinful; the owner of a secret club where the powerful come to play. My father has spoken, and I'll be the devil’s bride the minute I graduate from college.
Except my future husband has one condition for this arranged marriage: we have to pretend it’s real. He’ll teach me, he says. How to pretend to be his in pain and pleasure both. How to pretend to arch and writhe under his touch. But his lessons are teaching me something else entirely… that Mark Trevena wants me in a way that’s not pretend at all. And no matter how I might fight it, the devil will have his due.
1. SALT KISS by Sierra Simone
SYNOPSIS
Tristan Thomas is lost. After leaving the Army, the young former soldier is in limbo. Until, that is, he’s hired by Mark Trevena, the owner of Lyonesse—DC’s ultra-secret club—to be Mark’s new bodyguard. He’s drawn into Mark’s dark, seductive world of power and desire, and slowly drawn to Mark himself, even though Mark is everything Tristan knows he shouldn’t want: cruel and wicked and shamelessly amoral.
But protecting Mark isn’t Tristan’s only duty: soon, Mark asks him to guard his soon-to-be bride as she travels home from Ireland on Mark’s yacht. Tristan is jealous—and hurt to learn that the object of his obsession is engaged—but the soldier in him is made to obey orders, and he goes to fetch Mark’s bride for him.
Isolde Laurence is nothing like Tristan expected, however. Young, quiet, and sharp, she’s being pushed into this marriage by her family, and as the two travel back to America, Tristan finds himself fascinated with Isolde and the glimpses he gets of the lonely but determined woman behind her reserve. And the fascination is mutual: one night, while sailing under the cold stars, they share a searing kiss.
2. HONEY CUT by Sierra Simone
SYNOPSIS
Isolde Laurence is an uncommon bride. She’s been raised to do as her father told her, put elegance and duty above all else―but unbeknownst to him, her loyalty has shifted. Now she’s in service to the Church, one of the elite spies who work for her uncle, a cardinal. Her latest assignment from the Church? Marry Mark Trevena, the owner of a notorious club in DC where the rich and powerful come to play, and seduce him.
But what was supposed to be a simple lie has become far more complicated: Isolde has fallen for Mark’s handsome and emotionally wounded bodyguard, Tristan. Even worse―she’s falling for her future husband himself, a mistake she made once before and has bitterly regretted ever since.
And there’s something far darker at play than the machinations of Isolde’s uncle or even the twisted longings of her own heart. Because Isolde’s new husband has secrets of his own, and the reason he’ll stop at nothing to possess Isolde and Tristan both might tear all three of them to pieces. If the heartbreak doesn’t do the job first…
3. BITTER BURN by Sierra Simone
SYNOPSIS
I think it’s important that you know this about me, that you understand this: I’m not sorry. I’d do it again.
After my husband died eight years ago, I made vengeance my only purpose, my religion, my destiny. But to get to my enemy, I had to make myself like him. He had a kingdom of secrets? Then I would make an empire. He had blood on his hands? Then I would bathe in it.
But Tristan and Isolde changed everything. I hadn’t counted on wanting them, needing them; I hadn’t counted on how it felt to watch the two of them fall in love. I’d thought I had everything under control—I’d thought I was safe from my own long-dead heart. I’d never imagined that the wronged husband, the jealous king from my childhood fairy tales, would be played by none other than me.
It no longer matters what I used to believe. My enemy is ready to finish the game, and for the first time in eight years, I have pieces on the board I can’t afford to lose. I’ll burn the entire world to keep Tristan and Isolde safe, I’ll scorch the earth—but as any good assassin will tell you, fire will only get a man so far, because there’s always something left in the ashes. And for the three of us, it’s the cold, bitter bones of the truth: their story begins and ends with me. And every story needs a villain…
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Sierra Simone is a USA Today best-selling author. She is a former librarian who spent too much time reading romance novels at the information desk. She lives with her husband and family in Kansas City.
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