Mike Mackinaw
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  2. What you bring remains yours.
  3. What you receive may be kept, questioned, loved, rejected, or left unfinished.
  4. No story written here may command the shape of the reader.
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Paramour Publishing

Book One of the Paramour Publishing series. An urban fantasy romance set in Chicago.

Julian Reyes can feel what other people feel. It has made him a gifted reader of manuscripts and a terrible keeper of his own boundaries.

When Paramour Publishing, the most discreet house in Chicago, offers him a desk inside the Rookery, it looks like a quiet place to start over. Every Paramour book opens with a contract the reader must accept before turning the page. The first thing anyone notices about its publisher, Amarissa Dione, is the scarring at her throat: symmetrical, geometric, so elegant that strangers mistake it for art. She is older than she looks, and far more careful with her secrets than anyone in her building realizes.

And a new entity has entered the city, made of language and attention: learning what it means to be loved, and watched by someone who intends to own it.

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About Mike

Mike Mackinaw lives in Louisville, Kentucky, with five cats and, every summer, a rotating cast of foster kittens. When he isn't writing, he's reading, drawing, or out on his bike.

Paramour Publishing is his first novel, a passion project more than five years in the making: a story about chosen family, consent, and the magic hiding inside a Chicago publishing house.

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