Conform or Suffer: The Darkness of Beauty

Each book is a stand-alone but also an alternative version of the book. They can all be read independently. It can also be found on Inkspired.

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.

Cover artist Opal Mallow. Chapter art by Janky Fluffy. Published in 2023. Some characters were created in 2000