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A Reckless Indulgence
by Aveda Vice
Our take
Lyx spent two years regretting the moment she let a dying pirate live instead of finishing them off. Now she's stuck working with them again to survive a cruel captain's scheme. Cav is a half-dragon and nonbinary. Lyx is a siren who lost her song. The plan requires infiltrating a pleasure ship together, pretending old wounds don't matter. The pairing is a woman and a nonbinary lead, enemies-to-lovers done with real teeth, not just banter that resolves into fondness by chapter three. The tension stays genuinely unresolved for most of the book, which is rarer than the trope tag alone suggests.
Content note: this is inhuman representation front and center, a siren and a dragon, not humans in costume, so expect nonhuman bodies described as such. Pirates and mermaid mythology shape the setting more than they shape the romance itself. Enemies-to-lovers fans get real hostility to start, including an attempted killing in the backstory, before anything softens.
Publisher's description
Sirens can’t fall in love.
It’s a truth Lyx has always believed, even when a dying pirate washed up in her grotto. She should have killed Cav, the infuriatingly charming dragon, but despite her better judgment, she let him live.
That’s a mistake she came to regret.
Two years later, Lyx is trapped in the service of a cruel captain named Tidus. He makes her an offer: help him infiltrate the pleasure ship, Indulgence, and he will finally return her siren song and grant her freedom.
And who has ties to the Indulgence but Cav? It’s a perfect opportunity for Lyx to enact her revenge, but all Cav wants is a chance to make things right. While he bargains to secure her spot on the ship, she agrees to aid him in a series of carnal exploration.
There’s no denying the tension between them. With every entanglement, Cav and Lyx delve deeper into each other until she begins to question what she’s always known.
She needs to remember why she’s here: to destroy Cav and reunite with her song. Everything else is meaningless…
Isn’t it?
Warning: This novel is a W/Nbi romance between a jellyfish siren and a half-dragon. It is intended only for adult audiences. Reader discretion is advised.
Content advisories are listed in the book's front matter and on the author's website.
- First published
- 2026
Available formats
- Print — 329 pages · ISBN 9781962367974
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