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''The Ritual'' by Shantel Tessier is a new adult dark romance novel, originally published on November 19, 2021. It is the first book in the [[L.O.R.D.S. by Shantel Tessier (series)|L.O.R.D.S.]] series.
  
 
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*Aroused by Their Voice
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*Authority Sounds Deep
 
*Big Fancy House
 
*Blind Obedience
 
*Bound and Gagged
 
*Callously Casual Cheating
 
*Chained to a Bed
 
*Contraception Deception
 
*Corporal Punishment
 
*Covert Group
 
*Crazy Jealous Guy
 
*Damsel in Distress
 
*Damsel Fight-and-Flight Response
 
*Dark family secret
 
*Defiant Captive
 
*Devoted to You
 
*Disposing of a Body
 
*Downfall by Sex
 
*Dysfunctional family
 
*Eating the Eye Candy
 
*Elite Agents Above the Law
 
*Entitled to Have You
 
*Erotic Asphyxiation
 
*Erotic Dream
 
*Everybody Has Lots of Sex
 
*Fetishized Abuser
 
*Fiction 500
 
*Frustrating Lie
 
*FWB-to-lovers
 
*Happily ever after
 
*He-Man Woman Hater
 
*He worships her
 
*If I Can't Have You…
 
*If You Ever Do Anything to Hurt Her...
 
*I Have You Now, My Pretty
 
*Initiation Ceremony
 
*Insignia Rip-Off Ritual
 
*It's Personal
 
*I Will Find You
 
*Jerkass
 
*Kinky Cuffs
 
*Kinky Role-Playing
 
*Lack of Empathy
 
*Love Is a Drug
 
*Love Redeems
 
*Loving Parent, Cruel Parent
 
*Lust Object
 
*Manipulative Bastard
 
*A Man Is Always Eager
 
*Marriage Before Romance
 
*Masochism Tango
 
*A Match Made in Stockholm
 
*More Experienced Chases the Innocent
 
*Morally-gray romance
 
*Multiple POV
 
*Murder, Inc.
 
*My Own Private "I Do"
 
*Name play
 
*Nemesis Magnet
 
*Non-Answer
 
*Not Good with Rejection
 
*Parent-Preferred Suitor
 
*Pay Evil unto Evil
 
*Possessiveness
 
*Power Dynamics Kink
 
*Power is Sexy
 
*Professional Killer
 
*The Promise
 
*Property of Love
 
*Psycho Ex-Boyfriend
 
*Questionable Consent
 
*Rejection Ritual
 
*Relationship-Salvaging Disaster
 
*The Resenter
 
*Revenge Romance
 
*Revenge Is Sweet
 
*Rich Boredom
 
*Roaring Rampage of Rescue
 
*Romanticized Abuse
 
*Second-Act Breakup
 
*Sex Is Liberation
 
*So Happy Together
 
*Stalking is Love
 
*Sworn in by Oath
 
*Taking the Bullet
 
*Test of Pain
 
*Touch her & you die
 
*Toxic Lover Influence
 
*True Companions
 
*Turned Off By The Jerkass
 
*Undying Loyalty
 
*The Unfettered
 
*Unknowingly in Love
 
*Virgin
 
*What Did I Do Last Night?
 
*Yandere
 
*You Are Not Alone
 
  
 
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The Ritual
Cover of The Ritual by Shantel Tessier
Author(s) Shantel Tessier
Published November 19, 2021
Publisher Independently Published
Genre(s) Dark Romance
Age group New Adult


The Ritual by Shantel Tessier is a new adult dark romance novel, originally published on November 19, 2021. It is the first book in the L.O.R.D.S. series.

Trigger Warnings

  • Alcohol consumption
  • Anal
  • Arranged, forced & coerced marriage
  • Attempted rape
  • Blood & gore depiction
  • Bondage
  • Branding
  • Breath play
  • Captivity & confinement
  • Consensual non-consent
  • Cults
  • Dead bodies
  • Drowning
  • Drug abuse
  • Drug use
  • Dubious consent scenarios
  • Emotional abuse
  • Execution
  • Gaslighting
  • Graphic death
  • Graphic violence
  • Gun violence
  • Hanging & lynching
  • Hospitalization
  • Imprisonment (intentional)
  • Infidelity
  • Interrogation
  • Kidnapping / Abduction
  • Knife violence
  • Loss of autonomy
  • Masks
  • Medical treatment & procedures
  • Murder & attempted murder
  • Needles
  • Organized crime
  • Painkillers
  • Physical abuse
  • Physical assault
  • Physical injuries
  • Praise kink
  • Pregnancy
  • Profanity
  • Sexism & misogyny
  • Sexual abuse
  • Sexual assault
  • Sexual harassment
  • Sexually explicit scenes
  • Slurs
  • Slut-shaming
  • Stalking
  • Torture
  • Trauma
  • Vomiting

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