Book guide
Slippery Creatures
A shell-shocked bookseller inherits a shop, a secret and a dangerously charming spy.
Genre and trope pairingsRomanceForced proximityRomanceSlow burnRomanceHidden identityQueer RomanceForced proximityQueer RomanceSlow burnQueer RomanceLGBTQ+Queer RomanceHidden identityHistoricalLGBTQ+HistoricalBetrayalHistoricalHidden identityHistoricalWar storyHistoricalClass divideMysteryBetrayalMysteryHidden identityMysterySecret pastThrillerBetrayalThrillerHidden identityThrillerConspiracyThrillerOn the runThrillerSecret past
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About Slippery Creatures
After the Great War, Will Darling hopes his late uncle’s bookshop will give him a quiet new life. Instead criminals, the War Office and the mysterious Kim Secretan all come hunting for information Will does not know he has, pulling him into conspiracies where desire and betrayal arrive together.
Reading signals
- Spice
- High
- Darkness
- Dark
- Pacing
- Balanced
Series
The Will Darling Adventures · Book 1 of 3
Content warnings
- 1918 flu pandemic
- infectious disease
- violence/death
- kidnapping
- discussion of war
- mention of suicide
- death of family members (off page)
- stroke (off page)
- on-page sex
- swearing
