First published 2023
Tristan Thomas left the Army with no direction and landed a job as bodyguard to Mark Trevena, the powerful and ruthless owner of Lyonesse, a secret club in Washington, DC. Mark is cruel, magnetic, and entirely off-limits, and Tristan is already in deep when Mark sends him on a new assignment: sail to Ireland, collect Mark's fiancée, and bring her safely back to America. Tristan boards the yacht expecting to resent her. Instead he meets Isolde Laurence, a young woman who is quiet and sharp and clearly being pushed into a marriage she did not choose. Across the cold Atlantic, something builds between them. One night under the stars they kiss, and everything that was already complicated becomes impossible. Tristan is bound by loyalty to the man who employs him. Isolde is bound by family obligation to the man she is about to marry. And that man, Mark Trevena, is not someone either of them can simply walk away from. Salt Kiss opens the Lyonesse trilogy, a queer, kinky contemporary retelling of the Tristan and Isolde legend, set in the same world as Sierra Simone's New Camelot series, and built around an MMF ménage at its center.
Genres: adult, queer, erotica, fantasy-romance, dark-romance, contemporary-romance
Vibes: atmospheric, dark, emotionally-complex, forbidden-desire, intense, sensual
Tropes: forbidden-romance, forced-proximity, love-triangle, mnage-romance, power-imbalance
Setting: Washington, DC, Lyonesse, Ireland, Atlantic Ocean, America
Period: Contemporary
345 pages · Paperback · Bloom Books
Content warnings: explicit-sexual-content, toxic-relationship