
Book Title: Yours, Everlasting
Author: Beth Bolden
Cover Artist: Sleepy Fox Studio
Release Date: April 6, 2022
Genre: Fantasy MM Romance
Tropes: Opposites attract, road trip romance, secret admirer
Themes: Good versus evil, staying true to oneโs self, redemption
Length: 92 000 words
Heat Rating: 4 flames
It is not a standalone story. It is book 2 in the Enchanted Folklore series and does not end on a cliffhanger.
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Blurb
Evrard . . .Rhys . . .Evander . . .
Evander has gone by many names in the last thousand years. Heโs lived almost as many lives, using his immortality and his unique shapeshifting abilities to become anyone and anything. His goal was simple: to eradicate the malevolent magic threatening all humankind.
After finally succeeding, Evander feels heโs earned a justifiable and peaceful retirement. But the past never stays buried, and he discovers that itโs been watching him . . .
Marcos, the Guardian of War, has waited, heโs observed, heโs admired, and heโs yearned. But now itโs time for him to step into the light and let Evander see him for who he truly is.
But fate is fickle, destinies arenโt set in stone, and as much as Marcos hopes Evander might be his, it will be the fight of his life to not only win Evanderโs heart, but to defeat the evil that once again raises its sinister head.
Excerpt
Marcos knew he would not tire easily, but RhysโEvander, that was Evander under that unassuming exterior, a marvel that would never fail to astonish himโundoubtedly would.
After watching him for hundreds of years, both keeping near to him, and also keeping his distance, Marcos was still not sure how reduced his power was.
Marcos knew heโd retained some of the magic heโd possessed before, but unlike when heโd been the Guardian of Secrets, now, he was clearly more particular about how and when he used it.
โWe should stop for a rest,โ Marcos said, after theyโd been walking all night and partway into the day, almost without pause.
Theyโd stopped once, to fill their waterskins at a cold, bubbling stream. Theyโd long since left Beaulieu behind, and they had not even passed through a single village. Out of choice, Marcos had assumed, but it still surprised him that Evander kept to the disguise of Rhys.
Surely now that Marcos had revealed himself, Evander would let the shape of unassuming, gruff Rhys melt away until he finally was himself again.
Except not once, as far as Marcos knew, had Evander taken his normal shape since heโd been banished.
But now, now that he was with Marcos again, surely the subterfuge was unnecessary.
Rhys glared at him. Even after all these hundreds of years, watching Evander be someone else, he was not used to seeing Evander stare out at him through someone elseโs face. โDo you need to stop?โ he asked.
โNo, of course I do not,โ Marcos said. โI am a Guardian, I could walk all the way up the North Mountain without stopping. But . . .โ
โBut I am no longer a Guardian,โ Rhys interrupted him. โYour point is clear.โ
But even if it was clear, Rhys was obviously annoyed that Marcos had brought it up.
He doesnโt trust you, he thinks youโre to blame, which isnโt all that surprising, and now he thinks youโre patronizing him.
It was not the most auspicious beginning, but Marcos still held out hope that maybe they could forge a partnership, even after all this time had passed.
He just had to stop himself from saying the wrong thing and angering Evanderโhe is Rhys, Marcos reminded himselfโeven more.
So far, he had not managed even that.
Rhys stopped when the sun reached its zenith in the sky, finding a shady grouping of trees, with a large fallen log they could rest next to.
โIs this sufficient?โ There was still a bite to Rhysโ words.
โPerfectly sufficient,โ Marcos said, taking care to make sure there was no additional inflection to his words that would anger Rhys further. He certainly was not going to be stupid enough to remind the ex-Guardian that he did not need to rest at all.
Rhys settled down against the log. He looked tired. Perhaps if he changed forms, back to Evander, he might find additional strength. Maintaining a different form could be a strain on his power reserves.
Marcos would have suggested it but the silence that had fallen between them, and Rhysโ defensiveness every time he made even the simplest suggestion, kept him quiet.
He waited until Rhys closed his eyes, and then shut his own, sure that Rhys, who was obviously exhausted, would fall asleep quickly.
But a moment later, Rhys spoke up. โYou did not mean to reveal yourself to me.โ
Marcos had never been as accomplished a liar as Evander had been. Heโd never needed to be. Fighting was often straightforward, with little need for deception, and heโd never gotten into the practice of telling falsehoods well.
He could lie, but it was unlikely Rhys would believe him, and the chances of Rhys being even angrier at the lie were considerable.
โNo,โ he said carefully. โNo, I did not mean to reveal myself.โ
Rhys looked like Rhys, and not anything like Evander, not like . . . not like the Guardian heโd known for so many years . . . but Marcosโ heart beat faster anyway when he opened his eyes and Rhys was staring at himโlike he was trying to figure Marcos out, still.
About the Author

A lifelong Pacific Northwester, Beth Bolden has just recently moved to North Carolina with her supportive husband. Beth still believes in Keeping Portland Weird, and intends to be just as weird in Raleigh.
Beth has been writing practically since she learned the alphabet. Unfortunately, her first foray into novel writing, titled Big Bear with Sparkly Earrings, wasnโt a bestseller, but hope springs eternal. Sheโs published twenty-three novels and seven novellas.
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