I followed the scent of his magic until I bounced off his wards. The priest who summoned me ran when I appeared I don’t think he expected his ritual to work. I knew I was supposed to let one of the Court advisors know, but the magic called to me. When the pathway opened, I followed the stone walkway through to his world, disregarding the rules that had been taught to me from childhood. I was curious when I felt the summons across the Ways between the human world and faerie realm.

She found a Linda Bergkvist painting of a lonely fairy sitting on a tree branch, and this is what she wrote: The idea for Fairy Compacts was provided by Miya Kressin, who's a continued inspiration for the series. This massive lovey free-for-all let group members choose an image and write a prompt, and then let authors choose the one they wanted to write. This free novelette was written for the Goodreads M/M Romance group's Love is Always Write event in the summer of 2012. If you enjoyed this book, please head to and say hello. This free novelette may be reproduced, copied, and distributed for non-commercial purposes, provided the story remains in its complete original form. The Dangers of Fairy Compacts (Fairy Compacts #1) If any of that offends, now's the time to back away slowly. It involves magic, explicit wingsex, and an m/m pairing. This is an erotic romance novelette of a fantastic nature. But this is for certain: one should never make fairy compacts. Whether or not their budding affection for one another can overcome the shock of finding out the truth, only time will tell. Not to mention why they both have the strange feeling they've been bound, somehow, for a very long time.įairy Compacts is the story of two men, one fae, one mortal, who share a terrible history of which neither is aware. Instead, he found a shy young forest-priest with halting speech and a ridiculous smile-who claimed to know absolutely nothing about why his voice had been stuck in Aeron's head for decades. And it was mortal.Īeron stepped through the tear in the worldfabric to meet his destiny. The voice, the one that had been echoing through his dreams since he was just a boy, the one everyone thought meant he was going mad just like his mother, was real. When Aeron heard the summons from the mortal realm, he couldn't resist.

Equilibrium by Katey Hawthorne