The Masson Circle Collection, Releases 1/26!

i've been working on this quietly for the past couple months, and i'm finally finished and ready to put it out! these were some of the first books i ever published, and the last to come out right before i started taking off as an adult author/illustrator. so they got a bit left behind when i moved on to bigger and flashier projects. but i always loved these books and want them to get read!

so here's the link! if you ever bought one of these on itchio or gumroad in the past, check your emails! you should have a discount link to let you pick it up for $5 off!

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Even killers can fall in love. Set against a backdrop of early 70s Europe, The Masson Circle is  a collection of short queer romances between assassins, thieves, and  the criminal mastermind at the middle of them all. Originally released  between 2020 and 2021, these three stories have been remastered with  improved text and 30 brand new illustrations.

All three stories contain some violence, references to alcohol, and  explicit sexual content. They are intended for adult audiences only.   Comes in DRM-free PDF and EPUB formats, and includes an image gallery  ZIP containing all book illustrations, plus all the sketchbook content  included in the original releases.

Daffodils

Retired assassin Ezra Platt loves his wife, Tessa, more than anything  else in the world. For the first time in six years, the two are both in  town for their anniversary, which means it has to be made  special. What do you get the woman who is your everything, especially  when she's an assassin herself? Perhaps the answer lies in Ezra's  memories of meeting her...

18.2k words. Features fem dom, face sitting, and pegging.

Carnations

The Duplessis is hosting its biannual masked bacchanal, and art  forger and thief Leonard Lacroix has been hired to empty its safe.  Infiltrating the classy gentlemen's club is easy, but when he runs into  an old flame, getting out with all he wants is not.

17.4k words. Features gay sex in a private office. Contains the use of a homophobic slur.

Laurels

French couturier Mathieu Masson is a man with one foot in the  underworld, the one to call for anything from a killing to a Caravaggio.  But when a new client demands what he can't give, he has only his  bodyguard, Jean Martin, to lean on.

16k words. Features a trans male lead and tender lovemaking. Contains  some queerphobia, and references to child sex abuse in a character's  past.

This collection also includes Narcissus, Dianthus, and Sweet Bay, each an extra short story connected to their corresponding book, from the perspective of the love interest. Narcissus explores Tessa's memory of her and Ezra's first night together. Dianthus recalls the time Lionel and Leonard fooled around in a professor's office in college. Sweet Bay takes place just before Laurels' epilogue, as Jean and Mathieu settle into their partnership and open up about themselves. Sweet Bay contains discussion of child sex abuse in a character's past.