Initiation

Dominai of Airedale scrapes a living as a hunter and forest guide. One moonlit night he meets the wizard Allisande, who recognises a magical bloodline in him that he has never known about. She gives him a letter of introduction to the Crux, the centre of magical study in the Kingdom of Straetham.

The Crux is nothing like what Dominai pictured. It works as a magical academy and a sex dungeon at once, and each school of magic is bound to a particular kink or BDSM practice. Casting spells there requires surrender, loyalty and, above all, trust.

Then that trust is betrayed. Dominai has to face his own insecurities if he wants to protect the odd new home he has landed in and the found family he has only just begun to know.

This is fantasy erotica built around a kink-driven magic system, and the sexual practice is part of how the magic functions. The cast is varied, with pansexual, polyamorous and gender-nonconforming characters. It is the first book in the Sex Wizards series, by Alethea Faust.