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Steve is an orphan training as a scribe in a town on the edge of a magical forest. He doesn’t know why Lord Pierce thinks he can obtain an antler from one of the magical deer that live in the forest, but Pierce offers to pay off all of his debts if he does. Bucky is a ranger, one of a long line of a family who specializes in bringing back rare, dangerous, and magical things out of the forest to sell to the wider world. He won’t let his best friend travel alone through a place with so many dangers.
But when Steve and Bucky spend the first night in the woods, Steve wakes up a foot taller, a lot heavier, healthier than he’s ever been, and gently glowing in the night. As they get further into the forest, Steve wants to solve the mystery of who he is as well as find what Pierce wants. Bucky just wants to protect the friend he’s always had feelings for.
When they come across family Steve didn’t know he had; to keep them from throwing Bucky into the deep woods by himself, Steve has to pretend he and Bucky are in a relationship. What Pierce wants conflicts with what Steve’s family wants, and somehow, Steve has to reconcile his old world and his new—and the conflicting feelings he has for his best friend.