Blind Date #40 Fantasy/ Young Adult/ LGBT

Tropes: Heist Plot, Shared Trauma, Grumpy/Sunshine, Multiple POVs, Slow-Burn Romance, Fantasy Racism, Coming of Age, Criminal Underworld, Diverse Representation

Content Warnings: Ableism & language, Persecution for ‘witchcraft’ (theme), Indentured servitude and slavery. Forced underaged sex work recounted, Child abuse recounted, Disownment, Substance and gambling addiction, Nightmares, Coerced suicide (implied), Alcohol consumption, recreational drug use & non-consensual drugging including forced and coerced drug dependency, Blood, gore & injury depiction including dead bodies, emesis, medical experimentation, plague, eyeball trauma, and non-consensual body modifications, Grief & loss depiction, Death of a father & brother recounted, Death of a friend, Murder & attempted murder, Physical assault, Knife and gun violence, Torture, Strangulation, Explosions, Kidnapping and captivity, Incarceration, Drowning, Animal death, Animal attack & death by an animal attack, Bullying