The Serpent and the Swallow

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>My brother is dying.</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I won't allow it.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Cedric needs medicine-better yet a fucking miracle</span><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>-</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>but given that we're trapped in Neverland I'm forced to turn to our enemies for help the ones we've been slaughtering at any and every opportunity: Neverland's natives. It's suicide but if death is what I risk to give him a chance so be it.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Only... they don't kill me. One of them </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>saves </em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>me. I may be her prisoner but there's something more between us something as forbidden as it is intoxicating. And as the lines between love and hate grow more blurred by the hour I'm faced with an impossible choice.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Let down my walls and trust a stranger my </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>enemy</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> or risk Cedric's life... and my own fragile heart.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>The Serpent and the Swallow</em> is a prequel novella to the Curses of Never Series told from Elvira's point of view and features a blooming sapphic romance. It is best read between <em>A Sea of Eternal Woe</em> (Book Two) and <em>A Forest of Blackened Trees</em> (Book Three). Perfect for fans of <em>Once Upon a Time </em>and <em>Pirates of the Caribbean</em> these LGBTQ+ friendly adult reimaginings are filled to the brim with monsters magic and pirates.</strong></p><p><br></p>