{"product_id":"destiny-9781971405117","title":"Destiny","description":"\u003cp\u003eShe doesn't have a mark.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe doesn't have a House.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd she definitely doesn't have time for five men who keep looking at her like she's already changed everything.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNova survived by staying invisible. No territory. No origin claim. No system deciding who she belongs to or what she's allowed to become. It worked-until the Academy found her, flagged her as a threat, and locked her into a bonded cluster of five men who were never supposed to exist together.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe didn't choose them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe doesn't trust them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer body didn't get the memo.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne adjusts the coffee so she won't flinch.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne fills her plate without asking.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne holds eye contact too long.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne smiles like he's trying not to.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne calls her beautiful-and then forgets how to breathe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey don't ask her to be softer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe doesn't ask them to stop watching.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe bond isn't supposed to feel like this. The system wasn't built for proximity, or choice, or the way something keeps tightening beneath the Academy-inside her chest, between all of them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen a sixth man steps into the circle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe was never part of the design.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd the system starts watching closer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDestiny\u003c\/strong\u003e is a slow-burn why choose romantasy featuring\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- a feral, emotionally locked-down heroine\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- five protective disasters (and one very inconvenient sixth)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- forced proximity, forbidden bonds, and found family\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- awkward tension, accidental touches, and heat no one's allowed to name\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- a system built to keep people apart-and the cluster that breaks it\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Smut by Design\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/12\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781971405117\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 302\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.89lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.68d","brand":"Ceecee Crow","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52715587371189,"sku":"9781971405117","price":15.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/destiny-9781971405117","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}