The Captive Prince

I have absolutely no idea where I caught wind of The Captive Prince, but it must've been online and it was probably fandom. This is very fitting, of course, since you won't have to search long to discover that this trilogy began on LJ, and I'm 80% certain the author has a background in fandom. Remove the context of paper, ink, blurbs and the author's full name, and you might as well be left with the AO3 tag set of Damen/Laurent fantasy au, slow burn, slavery kink, enemies to lovers. I can't quite put my finger on what it is, but it reads incredibly fanfic-y.

Which means it went down in like three or four days, of course.

( It's better than it sounds )