Withering Time

Nalih was given an impossible choice: trade his body to men or die. Years later, Nalih has little faith in humanity and no hope for his future. When his current lover crosses the one line Nalih will not tolerate, he finally gathers the courage to leave, but he is set adrift without a way to survive. Enter Kai, a rough kind of guy who doesn’t understand how Nalih can stand to trade his body like a common whore. Even so, Kai is mesmerized by the beautiful, haunted Nalih and if Nalih will let him, he wants to give him the world. But Nalih isn’t ready for a real relationship. He can’t trust anyone to love him or understand why anyone would want to. It will take more than just Kai to give Nalih a happily ever after. Especially since Nalih is a shapeshifting plant, the bottom of the shapeshifting hierarchy.In 55,000 words of steamy male on male romance, these six short stories explore the dangers but also rewards of falling in love.