Binding Curse

ARCANE SERIES

Jett Gabriel knows two things about himself: he works hard, and he doesn't get distracted. Both of those things stop being true the night he walks too deep into the Oregon woods and finds a cabin that has no business being there. Inside - a glowing staff.

A stranger in the shadows. One moment of reaching for something he shouldn't have touched. The stranger's name is Riyu Calixto. He's twenty years old, white-haired, and powerful in ways Jett doesn't have a framework for yet. He's also denounced by the Arcane Council - the governing body of a magical world running parallel to the one Jett has always known - and currently being hunted by one of their best operatives.

The binding that activates when they both touch the staff anchors itself to Jett's world. Which means Riyu has to follow Jett. To class. To the library. To the rooftop where Jett goes when he needs to think. Through every hour of a college student's life that Riyu finds alternately baffling and beneath his dignity. Riyu has opinions about Jett's study habits. Jett has a precise instinct for exactly what gets under Riyu's skin. They bicker about coffee portions and personal space and whether Jett's approach to academic efficiency constitutes a personality flaw.

It should be simple. Survive the binding. Find a way to break it. Don't get killed by the hunter closing in from the Realm of Magic. It would be simple, if the staff wasn't hiding something neither of them expected.

It wasn't a curse.

It never was.

Binding Curse is a slow-burn BL fantasy romance with rivals-to-lovers tension, found family, a magic system with actual rules, and two people who are very bad at admitting things.