Spice returns in several chapters! For now we have a non-binary being and an artificial mind bonding. Act 2 once again will be posting every other week, starting today with Chapter 2.1: In which the great mind inhabiting the oceans of Europa joins with its newest acolyte.

Mira has fallen into the clutches of the enemy who is holding her captive… but who is also trying to recruit her to his cause. Mira has figured out one way she could find out the truth, though, using sex magic…

College student by day, monster slaying Princess by night, Rose West is a curvy, beautiful and cheerful young woman. Heir to the ancient kingdom known as The Garden, she thought she had it all-- a great job as a florist, lots of friends and a talking, furry, roommate. She’s shocked when one of her knights abruptly disappears from her team of magical monster slayers. But she doesn’t have time to mourn when a new villain emerges from The Night Bloom, the constant enemy of The Garden. Rose soon realizes the mystery man is actually the missing knight who has betrayed her.

“He once again raised his wet fingers to his lips and sucked them clean. She watched his thick fingers disappear between his full lips and the flash of his tongue over his fingers. She wanted those fingers, and she wanted that tongue with a physical ache. He wasn’t interested in giving in to her demands. The linen bonds tightened around her limbs, further limiting her movements….”

When Norman's staff discover that the company's been sold and they'll be unemployed the day after Christmas, they invite a mind controlling magician to the Christmas party to humiliate him.

The reader rec reads: “I thought your subscribers would appreciate this story about what happens when a dragon comes to terrorize a village and things don’t go as expected for either the dragon or the guy he kidnaps. It’s one of the most-liked fics on Archive of Our Own, but it’s not fanfic, it’s original.”