Eden Books Ancilla

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She had it all – riches, a college scholarship, a girlfriend – until her conservative, hyper-religious parents found out about the girlfriend and made her choose between conversion therapy and disownment. That was the end of her academic career…Three years later she meets a shy public reference librarian in a bookstore. He’s been waiting his whole life for her. Meanwhile, she’s starting her whole life over.What ensues between the two neurodivergent lovers is magic.Given that he’s about to become her tutor in the magickal and erotic arts, that’s only to be expected.But at what cost?The mysterious older man is all she could ever have wished for, but she may need to choose between her developing identity and the most profound love she has ever known.

“Master, teach me. I want to apprentice myself.”I can feel him trembling. Am I trembling too? I must be. My voice is. But all I feel is him.“Is this something you really want, or do you just want to learn how to be a dominant?” Shaking. God, he’s shaking. His raw need rips through me. “You did mention your former girlfriend wanting you to play the dominant. I can advise you without actually asking anything of you if that’s the case. Or is this about that conversation we had a while back about studying magic –”“If I only wanted advice, I’d ask for advice. I don’t just want advice. I want you. Master, teach me.” I take a deep breath.Silence falls.“I want that very badly,” he says at last.“I’m yours for the taking. Please. Take me.”The room is still. Too still. The very air is holding its breath.“Please.”The only one trembling now is me.

Set against a mystical academic backdrop with a love story that leaps off the book’s pages, this scorchingly hot, highly literary erotic coming-of-age story featuring richly developed neurodivergent main characters is like nothing you’ve ever read before.

Note: The cover art incorporates the image of two people embracing. I made it with Canva Pro’s AI generator. It is only one layer in a multi-layered picture, but it’s a large image, so my guess would be that the cover art is approximately 50% AI due to the size of the generated image. This is a self-illustrated book; I use Canva to make layered collages. The other art elements used in my collages include public-domain fine art, public-domain clip art, and free images from Canva’s database of stock photos and graphics.

Unless Grammarly’s free spell-check app counts as AI use, no AI was used in the editing of my manuscript. The only AI used was when I generated an image of “Magister” and “ancilla” and cut it out of its Canva-generated background to add it to the collage that became my book cover.