The Lone Dove #1
Love and Trust are two very important ideals, but what happens when the moment you lose the two most important people in the world and are left with an inheritance, and a company you find you cannot trust anyone else with. That is P...
For those of you who have not seen it yet, and for those of you who are of age to read dark romance, I have begun writing a darker version of this book. This version is a little outside my comfort zone, but it has certainly been on my mind.
My list of warnings on the novel is below:
AUTHOR'S NOTE:
The Darkside of Poppy is a dark academia romance containing material that may not be suitable for all audiences, including (with added facts):
1) Graphic violence
2) Murder
3) Torture
4) Mentions of addiction and alcohol abuse
5) Attempted sexual assault (non-main character)
6) Cursing (more so than most of my usual books)
7) Fictional and realistic integration (you'll know what I mean when I start writing scientifically - if you're a usual reader of mine, you've seen how I like to do this)
8) A dark setting (hence the title)
9) This will be a standalone; I don't believe I'll write a dark version of Maximus (this story should be dark enough, turning him into a morally gray male lead should be...interesting).
10) Names will be altered, friendships misaligned from the previous book and a gothic setting.
11) Always: slow burn romance
12) Never: explicit sexual assault
13) Sometimes: A death/near-death of a favourite character
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WARNING 1st CHAPTER BELOW:
CHAPTER 1
Athens Absconditus was the formal creator of an intensive educational program set to teach at the highest standards. Maximus Myer Absconditus. The hidden Latin meaning was that of a 'hidden God' as Deus Absconditus. Except he wasn't any more concealed than the president of the United States. Deus revelatus - that was who he genuinely came across as.
William Myer Absconditus taught Maximus a rule of thumb regarding the intuitive acts of life and death. Death ruled shadows and sins. Sins that weren't outlined correctly in a family with enough wealth to cover up stories like make-up caked a girl's face. Covered the redness, the zits, the small strands of hair upon places we wished never to be biologically produced in the first place. It wasn't the same urge women got to feel younger once they hit over 40. Not to inject plastic and Botox into their muscle layers just to enhance genetic engineering, and reverse ageing. As if it had never existed as a conceivable concept in the first place.
That botulinum toxin was created in the 1700s to the 1800s and transformed paralysis to parasitical toxin made people think women didn't need makeup anymore. No—they just needed a WWII weapon, only failed when making the product into a stable form. All it did was 'turn that frown upside down' and 'made a clown stand down forever' basically. Keeping the same expression, with just a sliver of toxin. Thanks so much for approving it FDA.
