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This book is a standalone er0tic horror novella and not part of the main Switchblade Romance series. Don't worry, I haven't killed off Richard and Tino!
Tino is grieving after Richard, his husband, dies in senseless circumstances. He's struggling to move on, not helped by increasingly dark and erotic dreams involving his dead husband.
A former hitman and long-time gangster, Richard was only ever going to end up in one place, but he hasn't finished with the earthly world or Tino yet. His possessiveness and jealousy means he isn't prepared to leave his beloved husband behind, and has made a pact with Satan to keep Tino by his side.
There can only be one conclusion but Tino has to face his fear and open himself up to a demon's lust if he wants to stay with Richard for all time.
Trigger warnings for suicide, blood, horror and dubious consent.
Publisher: Independently Published
Cover Artists:
Genres:
Pairings: M-M
Heat Level: 5
Romantic Content: 3
Ending: Click here to reveal
Character Identities: Gay, Pansexual
Protagonist 1 Age: 36-45
Protagonist 2 Age: 46-65
Tropes: Age Difference, Alpha Character, Antihero, Bad Breakup
Word Count: 20,000
Setting: New York City
Languages Available: English
Trigger for blood
Up in the bathroom, he ran his bath and stepped into the warm water. The mirrored tiles created reflections that stretched to infinity, something he had always found disturbing until Richard had distracted him with his talented tongue and hands.
"Good times," he whispered, and closed his eyes to lose himself in the memory of Richard, hair slicked back, bubbles rising around him, the water soaking his dark chest hair so it stuck to his pale skin, pink nipples just showing above the water.
Richard, drinking amber bourbon in cut crystal, the heady smell of his cigar permeating the room.
Richard, smiling slowly, beckoning to him, inviting him, crude words of sensual invitation dripping from his lips.
Tino.
READ MOREThat voice, so sweetly, dangerously familiar, whispered from a great distance. Opening his eyes again, Tino thought he caught something in the reflection in front of him.
Silvery and indistinct as moonlight, Richard walked down the corridor of mirrored glass towards him. The glass on either side of him remained empty of any reflection, as if no one was there at all.
“It's time,” he said, and stretched out his hand.
Tino laughed sourly. "Time for what, baby? You’re useless to me. Go away. " He waited for the rage, the bloodied fists, the shark-like smile.
“Time for you to get out of that bath, you self-pitying little shit.”
Then the smile came, Richard’s eyes glowing red, his smile growing until it seemed too wide to be natural, his teeth sharp as butcher’s knives.
Tino raised his hand to lazily flip off the demon, yet as he did so, he became aware that something had changed. His stomach clenched as rivulets of red ran down his hand and arm.
His other hand was the same, the diamond he wore coated in red, as if he had dipped his hand into a fresh corpse. Looking down, he was sitting up to his waist in warm, glutinous blood.
“Happy Halloween, sweetheart.”
Tino screamed, leaping up out of the bath and falling over the side, splashing the gore up the tiles as the demon’s laughter bounced off the walls.
COLLAPSEFor All Time is a companion novella to the Switchblade Romance series featuring the morally grey billionaire Richard and his sweet husband, Tino. Dark and creepy, it’s horror with a lush gothic feel as Tino is haunted by a demon in his lost lover’s form.
Disturbing and brutally raw with descriptions that many readers will struggle to cope with, this tale is not for the fainthearted. It is a compelling read. Beautifully written with characters that fans of the series will already be familiar with.
There is no guaranteed happy ever after to this Grimm fantasy, though, and I had to check that this was an alternative, one-off, non-canon tale that should be read parallel to the series but in no way reflects Richard and Tino’s real story. For broadminded readers who like their fiction dark.
This is NOT a romance, but an erotic horror to be read as standalone. The couple are an established, loving couple in the main Switchblade Romance series, and have been parted by death here. On screen suicide so be warned.
Triggers for suicide, dubious consent and gore.
Lady Jaguar
Jayne Lockwood
