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The Hand and the Heart is a friends to lovers romance, featuring Stiofen and Pesha, characters first introduced in The Melody and the Master. It is the second story in the Darkwood Cycle of The Book of All Things, but can also be enjoyed as a standalone.

The Darkwood Cycle:
Marriages of convenience, age gaps, friends to lovers, and healing love, deep in the Darkwood (medium high heat)
The Melody and the Master
The Hand and the Heart
The Wulf and the Witchling

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