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Rhapsodic (The Bargainer, #1)

by Laura Thalassa

🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️steamy·spoiler·The Bargainer #1·✓ Series Complete
Available on Kindle Unlimited

Why Read This?

You'll get a morally gray book boyfriend and a slow-burn romance that leaves you desperate for the next book.

Synopsis

From bestselling indie author Laura Thalassa comes the newly revised and edited first book in her smash-hit dark fantasy romance between a siren and the "bargainer" she owes countless favors to. Callypso Lillis is a siren with a very big problem, one that stretches up her arm and far into her past. For the last seven years Callie has been wearing a bracelet of black beads up her wrist, magical IOUs for favors she once received. Only death or repayment will fulfill her obligations. Everyone knows that if you need a favor, you go to the Bargainer to make it happen. He's a man who can get you anything you want … at a price. And everyone knows that sooner or later he always collects. But for Callie, he's never asked for repayment. Not until now. When Callie finds the Bargainer in her room, a grin on his lips and a twinkle in his eye, she knows things are about to change. At first it's admitting a truth—a single bead's worth—acknowledging the attraction between them. But the Bargainer is after more than just rekindling their connection. Something is happening in the Otherworld. Fae warriors are going missing one by one, and only the women are returned, each in a glass casket, a child clutched to her breast. For the Bargainer to save his people, he'll need the help of the siren he spurned long ago. If she can forgive him.

At a Glance

3.89 ★ Goodreads
Spice Level🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️steamy
Endingspoiler
PairingM/F
Romance Pacingslow burn

Top Tropes

captive romancedark romanceforced proximity

Mood

mysteriousdarkseductivesecretiveromantic

Book Details

Goodreads Rating

3.89 ★

Page Count

423 pages

Published

2016

Primary Genre

Romantasy

Pairing

M/F

POV

First Person

Romance Pacing

Slow Burn

Audiobook

Available

Yes

Format

Standard

Narrator

Chelsea Stephens

Narrator Count

Single

Tropes

RomanceMagicActionAngstWorld
Theme Constellation

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Mood & Vibe

Mood

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Characters

FMC: siren sign in to unlock

Spice Details 🌶️

intense / passionate sign in to unlock

sexual assaultabusedeathemotional abusekidnappingtraumaviolencecaptivitygriefstalkingwar

World & Setting

fae realm / faerie courts sign in to unlock

Reading Context

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