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A Soul to Keep
- Subgenre
- romantasy
- Edition year
- 2026-03
- Rating
- ★ 3.7 · 116 ratingsExternal reader rating · Hardcover
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Reia, a young woman shunned by her village as a harbinger of bad omens after demons killed her family, is offered a cruel choice: imprisonment or sacrifice to the faceless Duskwalker monster. Orpheus, the Duskwalker, has lived in the Veil, the realm of Demons, alone for centuries. Every decade he accepts a human offering in exchange for a protective ward against the Demons terrorizing the world, only to watch each companion die before him. When Reia arrives, she sees past his skull-like visage to something ethereal, and Orpheus feels his deep loneliness begin to ease as his desire for her intensifies. The story follows whether Orpheus can persuade Reia to stay with him willingly before she is lost to him forever.
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- Sacrifice: “village offers her an impossible choice - be thrown into the prison cells or allow herself to be sacrificed to a faceless monster” source
- Captive Romance: “her village offers her an impossible choice - be thrown into the prison cells or allow herself to be sacrificed to a faceless monster” source
- High Fantasy: “takes a human offering to the Veil - the place he lives and the home of Demons” source
- Slow Burn: “his insatiable desire deepens within every moment of her presence” source
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