Unless, of course, the relationship between them changes the course of their people’s history altogether. With their people poised for a long and bitter conflict, it seems too much to hope that these two men could turn their fleeting happiness into something lasting. As they shelter in an abandoned temple, a friendship neither of them could have imagined grows into a mutual attraction.īut Rus, whose people abhor love between men, is bound by an oath of celibacy, and Adares has a secret of his own that he cannot share. They meet in the aftermath of battle, when Rus saves Adares’s life, and Adares returns the favour. Rus belongs to a tribe of tattooed, semi-nomadic horse-breeders. It’s not the way enemies-to-lovers usually works.Īdares comes from a civilization of democracy and indoor plumbing. They met on a battlefield and saved each other’s lives.
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