The other version Conform or Suffer: A Romance is on Inkspired. Only the first chapter is similar, but even that goes in a different direction. Quig is an adoptive father in, Conform or Suffer: A Romance and it's set in a different universe. Uglier is also set in a different universe and each novel can be read as a standalone.
I did make an update to this version of the novel and removed some smaller characters such as Chloe.
Cast of Characters
Quig Curie-Lock — Author and professor.
Grew-Ella Eliot — Professor, editor, and Quig's closest friend.
Yoleta Burton — Government executioner and candidate for prime minister.
Prince Chase Vice — Royal model, actor, and Grew-Ella's ex.
Dot Curie-Lock — Quig's half-sister, florist, and Kindness Rebel. Is also a close friend of Grew-Ella.
Zill — Supermodel and Grew-Ella's much older sister. Shifter powers are unknown.
Trent — King.
Avery-Joy Haworth — Journalism professor, university reporter, and former queen.
Nurse Ruby — Dot's girlfriend.
Vex — Beauty pageant host, workhouse leader, and candidate for prime minister.
Rodrick T. Jones-Hale — Dot and Quig's secret father. Works for the government.
Junior — Kindness Rebel candidate for prime minister.
Madd-Ox Eliot — Grew-Ella's brother, works for Yoleta. He is Junior's closest friend.
Prime Minister Sean-Mack — Struggling to retain power and Junior's adopted father.
Betsy Web-Song — Quig's niece.
Karen Eliot — Grew-Ella's mother.
Colonel Ghoul Flint — Time traveler.
Ida Web-Song — Quig's oldest sister, a Chosen One, and Betsy's mother.
Odin Web-Song — Betsy's father and Quig's former brother-in-law.
Stanton — Works for Vex.
Ann Lane — Quig's ex.
Dean Frog — Aka Dean Frog Burton is Yoleta's ex-husband and dean of the university. Lion dragon shifter.
Lana — Former leader over marriage laws. Anne's aunt.
Paul Eliot — Grew-Ella's father.
Hempstead — Quig's editor and leader of the tent village. Dragon shifter.
Nan-Gran — Quig's maternal grandmother. Changed Dot and Quig's last names to protect them.
Magpie — Betsy's best friend.
Delia Orchid — Junior's sister and Trent's daughter.
Cutter — Beauty Contestant, Dot's half-brother, and Avery-Joy's boyfriend.
Snake Boy — Nickname for Quig's nephew. Dot raises him.
Synopsis
Never say I love you. If Grew-Ella tells her best friend, Quig, she loves him, they'll come for her, or worse, him.
Quig and Grew-Ella have been one step ahead of the system, but one wrong move could lead to a fight-to-the-death beauty contest or a workhouse prison.
For Quig, rejection can be fatal. When his fiancée abandoned him at the altar for the king, he needed to come up with a survival plan.
Their secrets are tested when Grew-Ella saves his life. But who will save her from her sister and the sinister evil that lurks behind her plastic smile?
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If you're traumatized by fiction with a lack of spicy times, you've been warned. Conform or Suffer is a 14+ adult novel fade to black.
There is no swearing, extreme gore, or spice.
Content Warnings: fertility struggles, mild violence, executions, abuse, trauma, rainbow babies, and mentions of human trafficking.
The main romance is straight, but the secondary relationship is about a lesbian couple. The author is a Christian, and a loved one requested wholesome LGBTQ+ characters that didn't die.
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