Because the one man Damen needs is the one man who has more reason to hate him than anyone else…” But in the lethal political web of the Veretian court, nothing is as it seems, and when Damen finds himself caught up in a play for the throne, he must work together with Laurent to survive and save his country.įor Damen, there is just one rule: never, ever reveal his true identity. But when his half brother seizes power, Damen is captured, stripped of his identity, and sent to serve the prince of an enemy nation as a pleasure slave.īeautiful, manipulative, and deadly, his new master, Prince Laurent, epitomizes the worst of the court at Vere. “Damen is a warrior hero to his people, and the rightful heir to the throne of Akielos. I remember first reading it not long after it started – I think I even still had a livejournal account at that point!įor those that aren’t familiar, here’s the summary of Captive Prince, the first book in the series: Pacat to that list of amazing authors, and I am so glad that the Captive Princeseries has turned into such a success story. You have no idea just how happy I am that it has taken off as a genre of its own, with amazing authors getting well-deserved recognition. M/M romance didn’t really take off until closer to 2005, and even then, it was fairly slow and definitely niche to start with. I wanted actual romance novels, just with a hero and a hero instead of a hero and a heroine. Frequently dealing with social issues, the AIDS epidemic, and other gay-specific issues, it just wasn’t what I was looking for. Gay fiction was “literature”, and definitely not romantic. The thing is, if you were looking for any kind of m/m romance in the late 90s/early 2000s, that was basically your only option. Like most of my friends, I started with fanfiction, and then found the absolute wealth of stories people post online. I’ve been reading online fiction since it was a thing, and I don’t mean ebooks.
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