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Frostflower and Thorn  (Frostflower and Thorn, volume 1)

By Phyllis Ann Karr  

21 Sep, 2025

Because My Tears Are Delicious To You

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1980’s Frostflower and Thorn is the first novel in Phyllis Ann Karr’s Frostflower and Thorn series of secondary-universe fantasy novels.

Warrior Thorn does not allow the lack of effective birth control to interfere with her active sex life. Having gotten herself knocked up by one of her many assignations, Thorn needs an affordable — ideally competent as well — abortionist.

Frostflower is no abortionist. She can, however, offer Thorn a solution. Frostflower is a sorceron.

Warning: rape, also gender-neutral terminology.

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