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Summary: Love changes you. So do the Outer Gods. Now: Alone in a cottage, Lavinia writes to the woman she loved. Fifteen years ago: Middle-aged Lavinia Whateley escapes her hilly Massachusetts town when the townsfolk decide to sacrifice her on Halloween. After almost dying in the woods, she's saved and housed by the stoic and mysterious Asenath Waite, or Azzie. On the coastal outskirts of East Providence, they start to fall in love.
However, things change when Azzie, with her secret past and the strange "scars" on the side of her neck, begins to transform into an eldritch creature of the deep. View more on Amazon
SubGenres:
Body Horror, Monster, Lovecraftian
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Tropes:
Slow Burn, Found Family, Feminine Rage
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Romance Ending Warning:
Romance, HEA or HFN (Happy For Now) Guaranteed
Content Warnings:
Past sexual abuse between a father and daughter, Past rape, Past traumatic pregnancy, Body horror, Emetophobia, Body dysmorphia, Ableism toward people with albinism, Mentions of suicide ideation