All right. Well, welcome everyone. I'm so excited.

A very special faded mates.

I haven't done this much reading since graduate school.

Just FYI.

I did romance homework for weeks now, and I'm so excited about it.

I know, because we got the best professors around to come and teach us about dark romance.

So welcome everyone to Fated Mates.

We promised you this episode when we did morality chain, and here we are.

Before we start and introduce our panel of distinguished guests,

we're going to just put a blanket content warning on this episode and on every book that's mentioned.

We are not going to be able to do content warnings for each individual title. Just know going in

that because we're talking about dark romance,

there will be discussion of many potential triggering everything. So just kind of know your own

limits. And as you approach listening to this episode, check show notes maybe by looking at

chapters and images and figuring out what's when.

You can find the things that you want and skip the things that you don't.

And we hope that you are as interested and fascinated by these conversations as we have been,

as we've been preparing for this episode.

So, why don't we start with introductions?

And then we'll go back a little bit and talk about why we brought in.

It's our first panel episode.

Yeah.

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