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The Trick to Brothels
Paperback
Series: The Last Lyric, Book 1
Publisher: Hunter & Co.
Published: Jun 4 2025
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.49
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
When a captured mage is told to buy his life with a story, Carnelian doesn't offer heroics or war. He tells the truth - the kind that cuts.
He was raised in a brothel run by witches and demons, a found family more honest and human than the world beyond its doors. But in his early youth, that fragile sense of belonging is shaken when a friend turns insecurity into a weapon, convincing Carnelian that love must be earned through strength.
To prove himself, Carnelian descends into a forbidden cellar - and nearly dies for the lie that he is not enough. Saved by those who truly care for him, he is forced to confront a harder truth: real loyalty never demands self-destruction.
Witty, lyrical, and haunting, The Trick to Brothels is a dark fantasy memoir of identity, temptation, and survival - told by a sharp-tongued anti-hero who lives by refusing to become what others expect him to be.
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