While I continue to do some final polishing up, I guess I should share the book blurb:
Being a primordial god has its perks unless one considers maturation, and centuries spent largely isolated from humanity begin to bear awkward fruit. Narcisse Nightshade, primordial god of sleep, is about to discover just how clumsy his coming-of-age at twenty immortal years can be. Prone to collapsing in defensive sleep and finding comfort in his specifically woven dreamscapes, he’s used to enjoying his solitude his own way whenever the ills of the mortal world threaten his waking hours.
Until one night a stranger suddenly appears in his dream—a windswept, raging, Victorian dreamboat who instantly catapults Narcisse into a highly irregular adventure playing detective. How on earth did this invader manage to enter a private dream? What did he want from the god of sleep?
Narcisse fumbles through his own coming-of-age with the help of immortal messengers, a soulless older sister bent on exacting bloody justice, a hovering mother widely feared by their feuding kin, and Chaos itself. What he discovers about this elusive mortal opens the floodgates to his own inner world and his heart, and perhaps—perhaps—the god of sleep is a great deal more human where it counts the most.
Taking place concurrently as the events in Nightshade’s Emporium, The Perfect Rochester is a romantic comedy about dreams, elusive and otherwise.
As usual, this is the preliminary version, which means changes can still be made. I tried to clean up the prose and whittle things down a bit, and so far this is what I have.
I had too much fun writing this book as well as Nightshade's Emporium, and I'm really, really tempted to revisit this universe in a future book. I'm still on the fence about it, but the struggle is real. And if it does happen, there'll be some shuffling taking place in the calendar since I'd rather not space related books too far apart.
UPDATE: The book has been uploaded at Draft2Digital, and you can go here for the pre-order page. Last time I checked, only Apple has it listed, but the stores will increase in number the closer we get to the release date. I'm taking a bit of a break from it to clear my head, and then I'll be going over it again in e-book form to make sure mistakes were all corrected (or at the very least minimized since things can still escape my notice despite all efforts).
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