Smoke & Solace

Series:  Eternal Bindings #4

Genre: M/M Romance

Release Date: July 3rd 2026

I built my life around never needing anyone.

From my isolated station above a dying salt-town, I study the wounds in the Veil and turn apocalypse into data—clean, cold, and safely distant. Then someone sabotages the tear I’ve monitored for three years, and something ancient begins pushing through.

Nox isn’t a ghost. He’s the last surviving fragment of a forgotten order, and my attention is the only thing that makes him solid. Every brush of his hands drags me back into the body I’ve spent years escaping. He calls me his warm one. Looks at me like being seen by me is the only thing holding him together.

But my life’s work has been stolen. The predictive model I created is now a map for the Hollow Court to tear the Veil apart. Worse—they know the truth I’m only beginning to accept: Nox and I are one of the few living bonds capable of stitching it closed again. To save the world, I’ll have to do the one thing I’ve never known how to do: stop observing from a distance, put my hands on the thing I love, and refuse to let go.

Smoke & Solace is a dark MM fantasy romance featuring a touch-starved necromancer, an ancient phantom learning how to inhabit a body, intense attention-based bonding, forced proximity, found family, explicit heat, and two lonely scholars who become dangerously necessary to each other.

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