Book Title: Golden Bond
Author, Publisher, Cover Artist: Tavian Cross
Release Date: July 9, 2025
Tense/POV: first person, past tense, alternating POV
Genres: MM Fantasy Romance
Tropes: Bonded lovers, strangers to lovers, forced proximity
Themes: fate, choice vs duty
Heat Rating: 5 flames
Length: 56 000 words/200 pages
It is the first in the series. The romance between MCs is complete here. It works as a standalone.
It does not end on a cliffhanger.
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I came to the sacred island to pay my family’s debt. I never expected to lose my heart.
Blurb
My name is Callis, and I’m an offering.
Sent to Eletheria—the legendary pleasure palace where gods once walked among mortals—I have one purpose: submit to the bonding ritual, serve my time, and return home with my family’s honor restored.
But the man who chooses me changes everything.
Auren is silver-haired, devastatingly beautiful, and dangerously powerful. As a Thorn of the sacred order, he needs to complete a successful bond to advance in rank. I should be just another transaction to him—a means to an end.
Instead, he awakens something in me I never knew existed.
Under his skilled touch, I discover pleasure that burns hotter than temple incense. The bond between us grows deeper than any ritual, more consuming than prayer itself. But Auren carries the scars of three failed bonds, and I have a ship waiting to take me home.
As our connection intensifies, I’m forced to choose: honor my duty and leave, or risk everything for a love that could either complete us both—or destroy us.
Some debts can only be paid with the heart.
The bond surged.
No longer the choking pull of something half-formed, half-denied. No longer a knot in my chest or a burn behind my ribs.
Now it felt like wind in sails. Like something alive rushing forward—eager, unbound. A desperate embrace that whispered: yes, yes, yes.
Callis arched forward, pressing against me, mouth finding mine with a hunger that stole my breath. The taste of him was salted heat and whatever sweet herb lingered from the evening meal—rosemary, maybe, or fig. His tongue met mine and the bond flared hot, flashing through my limbs like lightning licking the edges of a storm.
I groaned into the kiss, one hand sliding to his waist, gripping the soft folds of his robe, twisting it to bring him closer. My other hand stayed knotted in his hair. I pulled gently, just enough to tip his face upward, his throat bared.
His breath hitched.
I kissed him from above—slow at first, then deeper. My tongue slid along his, met hesitation, then a hungry reply. He tasted like heat. Like nervous surrender. Like promise.
The fold of his seret had loosened with our movements, slipping from his shoulder. My knuckles brushed against his skin—warm, smooth, alive—and he shivered. I chased the shiver with my mouth.
The bond pulsed again, louder than thought.
A weight behind my sternum. A throb behind my teeth. A demand.
His fingers found my sash. Trembled there.
“Do you feel it now?” I breathed, lips brushing his jaw, my voice rough with longing.
He nodded, too breathless to speak.
Then he opened his mouth—whether to answer or beg, I didn’t know—and I kissed him again before he could finish the thought.
Callis trembled beneath my hands, and the pulse of the bond echoed through him like a drumbeat I could feel in my palms, my mouth, the base of my spine. I kissed him until he tilted into me completely, no space left between us but the thinnest air. The air that tasted of him.
Tavian Cross is an emerging author of gay erotic fantasy romance.
Obsessive fan-fiction reader, BL manga collector, and erotic steam engineer, Tavian is setting out to create a world where love has no boundaries, lust serves a higher purpose, and beauty is divine.
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