PLEASE READ CAREFULLY: THIS IS FOR A PREORDER, YOUR COPY OF THE KNUCKER KING WILL BE SENT OUT END OF JULY 2026
‘Call for me, I will hear it and come to you...
The church has deemed healer Avice Gardener an outcast from her village — her strange herbs and ancient knowledge mean she is too witchy for comfort. But when a baby is born “wrong” and a second birthed with the mark of magic, Avice knows human remedies will not suffice. Instead, she takes the infants to Knucker Hill, at the entrance to the Underneath.
The dragonesque Knucker, King Trewoofe, has long watched Avice’s healing abilities from afar. For years, he has yearned for her gentle hands and kind eyes to rest on him a little longer. But when he agrees to help care for the suffering children she brings him, the church turns on them both, pouring poison into the Underneath.
Desperate to save the noble, wounded king, Avice takes Trewoofe into her home, riddled with darkness and barely clinging to life. And as the frost deepens, two hearts seek solace in one another… even as the outside world threatens to divide them forever.’
Tropes:
Midwife witch x dragon shifter, body and neurotype diversity, medieval fantasy, Celtic myth, Cornish folklore, cosy fantasy, friends to lovers, found family, slow burn, yearning, sweet & spicy romance, care & comfort, forced proximity, only one bed, she saves him, protection & devotion, acceptance & support, sized difference, he has horns, he falls first and hard, slow burn, yearning, and Faerie familiars.
Content warnings:
The Knucker King is an adult Romantasy and is not suitable for those under eighteen years old.
Content warnings include: descriptions of childbirth and birth defects, pregnancy, domestic violence, discussions of death of children (past), systemic misogyny, religious fundamentalism, discussions of sexual assault (past), death, grievous bodily injury, descriptions of overstimulation, body transformation/shape shifting, descriptions of wound repair, kidnapping, physical assault, and near death experiences.
The Knucker King is an 'open door' Romantasy and contains enthusiastically consensual, graphic descriptions of sex including: masturbation, oral (including while one character is still in their dragon form), praise, breeding, face sitting, penetrative sex, pregnancy and children (epilogue).
PLEASE READ CAREFULLY: THIS IS FOR A PREORDER, YOUR COPY OF THE KNUCKER KING WILL BE SENT OUT END OF JULY 2026
‘Call for me, I will hear it and come to you...
The church has deemed healer Avice Gardener an outcast from her village — her strange herbs and ancient knowledge mean she is too witchy for comfort. But when a baby is born “wrong” and a second birthed with the mark of magic, Avice knows human remedies will not suffice. Instead, she takes the infants to Knucker Hill, at the entrance to the Underneath.
The dragonesque Knucker, King Trewoofe, has long watched Avice’s healing abilities from afar. For years, he has yearned for her gentle hands and kind eyes to rest on him a little longer. But when he agrees to help care for the suffering children she brings him, the church turns on them both, pouring poison into the Underneath.
Desperate to save the noble, wounded king, Avice takes Trewoofe into her home, riddled with darkness and barely clinging to life. And as the frost deepens, two hearts seek solace in one another… even as the outside world threatens to divide them forever.’
Tropes:
Midwife witch x dragon shifter, body and neurotype diversity, medieval fantasy, Celtic myth, Cornish folklore, cosy fantasy, friends to lovers, found family, slow burn, yearning, sweet & spicy romance, care & comfort, forced proximity, only one bed, she saves him, protection & devotion, acceptance & support, sized difference, he has horns, he falls first and hard, slow burn, yearning, and Faerie familiars.
Content warnings:
The Knucker King is an adult Romantasy and is not suitable for those under eighteen years old.
Content warnings include: descriptions of childbirth and birth defects, pregnancy, domestic violence, discussions of death of children (past), systemic misogyny, religious fundamentalism, discussions of sexual assault (past), death, grievous bodily injury, descriptions of overstimulation, body transformation/shape shifting, descriptions of wound repair, kidnapping, physical assault, and near death experiences.
The Knucker King is an 'open door' Romantasy and contains enthusiastically consensual, graphic descriptions of sex including: masturbation, oral (including while one character is still in their dragon form), praise, breeding, face sitting, penetrative sex, pregnancy and children (epilogue).
