Velvet youth, velvet bodies, velvet words. 

On the day of his 18th birthday, the headstrong Kolt Lagos expects to be welcomed into his father's criminal empire founded on the prized ability to manipulate human emotion. Instead, Kolt is shipped off to live in his family's isolated second home, finding himself trapped on a secluded island by a curse that defies all logic. With only the island's miserly grave tender for company, Kolt is desperate for a way back home and into his father's good graces. 

Xavier Weaver, grave tender and tinkerer, has lived on this cursed island for his entire life, caught between his contract with the Lagos family, the dangerous antlers that grow from his skull, and his own secrets that he would give anything to keep buried. Xavier knows better than to trust a Lagos. Theirs is a legacy that grows and grows.

 A 110k word transgothic horror novel by Friction Press featuring sensitive themes including but not limited to discussions of emotional and sexual abuse, grooming of minors, incest, PTSD, drug use, CSA, and removal of consent. Features a futa protagonist with amab and afab genitals.

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