Drawn to Light
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  • Parts 14
  • Time 2h 27m
Complete, First published Feb 17, 2020
Mature
✍️ 2020 Open Novella Contest
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Jaiyana, Jay-for-short, Brown had abandoned her life long ago after a bitter divorce left her reputation as a Domme in tatters. But when a girl literally falls out of a portal and into her arms in the dingiest alley of the hell-hole that is her neighbourhood, she has no choice but to take her home where a tale beyond her belief unfolds.

As a woman with magick in a land where magick is forbidden, Tilly has no rights. Sold by her father for five coppers to the witch hunters, she is doomed to a life as an enslaved dirty secret, used and experimented on. So when the opportunity comes on New Year's Eve, she makes a run for it, armed with nothing but a box of matches and a legend.

As the witch hunters close in, Jay must figure out how to keep Tilly safe and out of their clutches in a world she cannot reach. Because Tilly awakens something long dead in Jay's heart and to risk losing her is to lose the last of her hope.

The Midnight Retellings Collection consists of re-imaginings of fairy tales and other stories as modern adult romances with D/s and power dynamics flavours. 

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This story contains explicit sexual content and is intended for mature 18+ audience only

Trigger warning: This story contains implications of sexual and physical abuse.

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