Magebound

Winner of the Rainbow Romance Writers' 2010 Romance Award for Excellence - Science Fiction/Fantasy category!

A slave since the age of eight, Lark has been brutalized and victimized. When he finds himself the property of Lord Naeven Sactaren, a mage as frightening as he is beautiful, Lark is thrown into a life of magic and quirky friends that force him to change in ways he never thought he could. Inexplicably drawn to his master, Lark struggles against his own fears and desires as he works side by side with the seductive mage. Never has he been so enchanted by anyone, which raises a frightening question: Would Lord Sactaren bewitch his slave in order to lure him into his bed? In a world where sex is magic and lust is power, can Lark trust what he feels, or has he simply been Magebound?

Setting
Traxen is a small fishing village on the northwest coast of the southern continent on the planet Ashael. Colonized about 130 years before the story starts, Ashael is a pre-industrialized world inhabited by humans, athaenians, dracorians, selkies, arachnidae, and dragons.

Most of the story takes place within the castle of the Traxen Mage, most notably in the magic shop and the mage's tower. The castle belongs to Lord Naeven Sactaren, Traxen's resident mage.