In A Bargain of Blood and Gold, a hunter goes to a small town only to mistakenly befriend the vampire and team up against a bigger threat. In Lord of the Last Heartbeat, a mage runs away from his crime lord mother and is taken in by a man whose home is cursed. In Courting Nightfall, a half dark elf joins an adventuring party and heads out to kill the vampire wreaking havoc on town, though he has...
![Short Story Review: Careened (Baal’s Heart Book 3.5) by Bey Deckard [Audiobook]](https://metaphorsandmoonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/Short-Story-Review-Careened-Baals-Heart-Book-3.5-by-Bey-Deckard-255x255.jpg)
Jon, Tom, and Baltsaros are spending Winter in Madierus, but Jon is still struggling emotionally, having nightmares, and pulling away from Tom and Baltsaros. To try and fix things, both Tom and Jon decide to surprise each other with some holiday...
![Book Review: Fated (Baal’s Heart Book 3) by Bey Deckard [Audiobook]](https://metaphorsandmoonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-Fated-Baals-Heart-Book-3-by-Bey-Deckard-255x255.jpg)
With Baltsaros's mental state still unwell, the three men and their pirate crew head back to Madierus hoping Abetha will be able to help. Their relationship is yet again tested, Baltsaros starts to remember terrible things from his past, and the men set off on one last quest to try and rid him of his gruesome obsession once and for...
![Book Review: Sacrificed (Baal’s Heart Book 2) by Bey Deckard [Audiobook]](https://metaphorsandmoonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-Sacrificed-Baals-Heart-Book-2-by-Bey-Deckard-255x255.jpg)
The pirate crew of Baal's Heart are heading into new and treacherous territory: the Devil's Isles. When they find a land steeped in the blood of sacrifices, it tests Jon's, Tom's, and Baltsaros's strength to overcome their own inner demons as well as the strength of their newly formed...
![Book Review: Caged (Baal’s Heart Book 1) by Bey Deckard [Audiobook]](https://metaphorsandmoonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-Caged-Baals-Heart-Book-1-by-Bey-Deckard-255x255.jpg)
With no friends and only his unloving step-father as family, Jon's life is boring and miserable, so when he gets kidnapped and offered a job aboard Baltsaro's pirate ship, he accepts. But when he unexpectedly develops feelings for the cruel captain, and the captain takes a liking to him in return, it creates a riff between captain and first mate, and all three of them will have to sort out...
Lucardo's father is attempting to end Lucardo's relationship with the aging mortal scribe Ed, but Lucardo isn't going to sit back and let him. Lucardo plans to find Ed and then figure out a way that they can be together for however long they may...
Ed, an older scribe working for a family of immortal beings, is surprised but not displeased when one of the immortals admits to having feelings for him. Their newfound relationship doesn't lack passion, but Ed's age and mortality and the lack of acceptance from Lucardo's family make it fraught with difficulties that might tear them...
Kamir has been interested in High Commander Jader for years, but it's a fantasy he knows will never come true, not when he's the family disgrace---married at 16, pregnant at 19, now divorced with two children, about to be disowned by his parents, and still dealing with an ex he thought he'd never have to see again. Jader grew up an Islander after washing ashore there with no memory at the age of...
A year and a half ago, Lesto was punched in the imperial pavilion by Shemal, a pirate criminal; but unable to deny the chemistry between them, they snuck away to an empty room later that day where they did far more inappropriate things before Shemal immediately ran off, and neither has been able to forget the other since. When Lesto gets kidnapped and dropped on Shemal's doorstep, both men are...
Prince Allen has trained his whole life for something like this---learning as much about the languages, politics, and in-and-outs of royal court as possible---and now he's been chosen to be the High King's Consort... which is why he's crushed when High King Sarrica humiliates him and dismisses him from court mere minutes after meeting him. Sarrica never planned on taking another consort after...
