The Forbidden One

An MM Fantasy Romance

By: Rory West

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Silas Blackwell is a sculptor who has always been haunted by the uncanny. When Lord Vaelion Duskshade, a fae noble desperate to preserve his legacy, commissions him to carve the figure of a forbidden god, Silas believes he has been given the chance of a lifetime.

But Thornwick Manor is more than a studio—it is a gilded cage. As Silas shapes the stone, he awakens whispers of the god buried within: Nytharos, chaos incarnate, desire bound in silence. With every strike of the chisel, the boundary between creator and creation begins to erode.

For Vaelion, the commission is a gamble; a chance to secure power and escape his own decline. Yet the god Silas unearths is no passive relic. Nytharos stirs hunger in both mortal and fae, unraveling the careful control Vaelion has spent decades cultivating.

Caught in the pull of a god who promises ruin and rapture, Silas and Vaelion must each face the cost of obsession. One carves the doorway. The other tries to hold it shut. But once Nytharos wakes, no one leaves unchanged.