The Sky Nymph trilogy is an MMM romance that is best read in order, featuring spirituality, found family, and falling in love with one’s best friend. Although the Sky Nymph series takes place in the same magical Vienna as the Augarten pentalogy, this series can be read as a standalone.
The Sky Nymph series is about finding one’s way in the world, and reconnecting with nature and the spirit. As Ollie searches for meaning, he turns inward toward his Higher Self, and solidifies his bond with two men who are also on the path.
Author: Charlie Godwyne
Genre: Contemporary MMM Romance with spirituality and magical realism.
Trope: Best friends to lovers
Themes: Finding home, finding family
There are no cliffhangers. Each book ends happily, with a happily ever after at the end of the trilogy.
The books should be read in order.
Overall Heat Rating for the series: 4 flames (Detailed, but slow burn to set up.)
Ollie’s POV
Bryn’s expression became tender. “You’re right. Moritz is a very comforting person.”
“He is,” I agreed. “We should clone him so I can have one.”
“Or I could just share him with my closest friend,” Bryn replied.
The open honesty of his statement silenced me, and hope ran through me like a breath of fresh air.
“I’d really like that,” I answered softly.
“Thank you for keeping my secret,” Bryn said, getting back on the topic of magic.
I thought of the many times I’d caught Bryn touching the Schöner Himmel, his brows furrowed in concentration. I then considered the spiritual things Florian had told me in letters over the years, and what might have been said in confidence.
“Florian Schwarz prays to an angel for protection,” I said tentatively, hoping Bryn would take the hint.
He blinked and seemed to consider his words a moment. “His shop cooperates in that protection. It likely ties into the whole building, if this is an angel shared among Christians and Jews.”
Florian was neither of those, and I didn’t recall ever asking the angel’s name, but there was a decent chance Bryn’s musings were true.
“If something ever happens in the city,” said Bryn as we turned a corner and headed down a path through a copse of trees, “go to the Schöner Himmel. It will protect you, even if Florian isn’t there. His wards are so strong even I could feel them, and I’m not in the same tradition as whatever Florian does, considering I don’t pray to any angels.”
Such a warning seemed ominous. What could possibly happen to the city?
“And if you can’t go there, then come here to Augarten.”
“Augarten?”
“Another secret, can you keep it?”
“I promise, Bryn.”
We strolled a ways more to get further from any people who might pass by us before Bryn spoke again.
“There’s a guardian spirit here in Augarten. I can sense her, though she has never revealed herself to me. Areas with the blessing of a guiding nature spirit feel richer than those that don’t have one. Anyway, I don’t think she likes humans, so I don’t know if she would specifically help you, but if the city were ever in crisis, I am sure she would try to save her garden.”
This was all a lot to process. “If I’m inside the garden, she could end up protecting me as well. I’d benefit thereby.”
“Yes. That’s assuming Moritz and I get deployed, since the government can call up all men who’ve completed their mandatory civil service, and we wouldn’t be there to protect you.”
I still couldn’t see what could ever happen to Vienna. “It’ll be fine. I’ll run to Florian if I can’t find you or Moritz.”
Or even Berger’s Burgers or Boutique Press. Despite my fledgling German, I wasn’t worried about being left to fend for myself here. With so many generous people in my life, that was one thing I didn’t have to stress about.
“Good,” Bryn said, and I smiled.
BOOK DETAILS
BOOK 1
Book Title: Infinite
Cover Artist: Kanaxa
Length: 50 000 words / 186 pages
Release Date: March 24, 2021
The start of a trilogy that is best read in order.
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I’m on the run, leaving behind everything I’ve ever known.
I’m on the run, on a blessed path that leads me straight into their arms.
Blurb
In 2026, Oliver Smith emigrates from the United States to Austria, to start a job as an editor for Boutique Press. Anxious, tired and broken, he hallucinates an angel comforting him on the plane. Ollie assumes it was a dream, but the Catholic contract lawyer Moritz who picks him up at the airport assures him that angels are real.
As Ollie builds a new life on the other side of the world, working his job while trying to keep himself together and hold his shadows at bay, he meets Bryn, a young man who practices a secret magic and sings gentle prayers to the sunset. Bryn is married to Moritz, the same contract lawyer who helped Ollie settle in and who keeps showing up and cooking for him in the evenings. But things have gone wrong: Bryn and Moritz are separated, pending divorce.
Ollie and Bryn fall fast together, becoming best friends, and as Ollie gets to know Moritz’s caring heart he realizes he has feelings for this beautiful man, too. It’s clear that Bryn and Moritz still love each other. As Ollie works to bring them back together, he finds himself being healed in return and drawn into their loving embrace.
Infinite is the first book in the Sky Nymph series and is a 50,000-word MMM romance with magical realism, patient angels, typewriters on bicycles, and lots of espresso. Although Infinite takes place in the magical Vienna of the Augarten series, it can be read as a standalone.
BOOK 2
Book Title: Nebulae
Cover Artist: Kanaxa
Length: 37 500 words / 152 pages
Release Date: September 8, 2021
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I pray, Angel, please keep my lovers safe…
Blurb
In 2027, one year since emigrating from the United States to Austria, Ollie has settled into a happy life in Vienna with his two boyfriends, Moritz and Bryn. He has handled nearly all of his lingering debt, and is excited to embark on the next stage of life with his partners.
But on the eve of Fasching, Vienna shuts down. The Schöner Himmel coffee shop is forced to close, and with the mandatory ambulance service and the military deployed, Bryn and Moritz are called up. As his loved ones fall to illness and injury, Ollie works himself to the bone, helping his friends keep the Schöner Himmel, the Buchinger book bindery, and the tailoring shop running. With nowhere else to turn, he prays to his guardian angel, eager to seek spiritual refuge in dark times.
Instead of giving comfort, the angel challenges him to face what he is running from. Alone, without the support of his lovers, Ollie can no longer deny his greatest fears and must accept the test his angel has set for him. To awaken to the mystery and the forest of a myriad ways, Ollie must stand and fight what chases him.
He has found his home. Now, he must find the way forward.
“The path lies open before you,” the angel says. “Will you take it?”
Nebulae is a 37,500-word MMM romance featuring magical realism and endurance through hard times. It is the sequel to Infinite and is thus best read in order. Although the Sky Nymph series takes place in the same magical Vienna as the Augarten pentalogy, this series can be read as a standalone.
BOOK 3
Book Title: Etheric
Length: 35,000 words / 146 pages
Release Date: December 15, 2021
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Come what may, I have what it takes to hold us together.
Blurb
Two years after the events of Nebulae, Bryn, Moritz, and Ollie are enjoying peaceful days and continuing to build on their relationship. Meanwhile, Milly—Bryn’s sister—and her wife, Grace, have always wanted children, and as planned, Milly starts trying to conceive with Ollie’s help. Bryn never thought he’d become a parent or even an uncle, but seeing everyone around him so happy at the prospect of children, he is doing his best to open his heart to the fruitful gifts that life can bestow.
Then circumstances take a turn, and Bryn is left holding the reins of an exhausted and stressed-out family. With Moritz working non-stop at a local law firm, Ollie’s panic disorder rearing its ugly head, and the addition of a little bundled-up blessing who had a rough start coming into the world, suddenly everyone is relying on Bryn to lead. Yet Bryn’s intense self-doubt leaves him feeling like he isn’t anywhere near good enough—or strong enough—to be all that his two men and their fragile baby need.
As magical forces become active in Vienna, Bryn must make a choice: refuse his role and watch his family fall apart, or invoke his higher self and come into his own to navigate the spiritual and magical flow of the world.
Etheric is a 35,000-word MMM romance featuring magical realism and the cutest baby ever. It is the third book in the Sky Nymph series, which is best read in order. Although the Sky Nymph series takes place in the same magical Vienna as the Augarten pentalogy, this series can be read as a standalone.
Charlie Godwyne lives in Vienna and loves to walk at Augarten and shop at book binderies. A translator by trade, Charlie loves to take train trips around Europe and hopes to one day learn how to play the banjo.
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