Dear Author,

Around the museum, the streets were filled with the din of the city. Cars honked noisily, drunken revellers heckled and laughed. Somewhere in the darkness, the wail of a police siren called out.

Inside the museum it was quiet. Moonlight streamed in through a skylight, bathing the Grecian exhibit in a pearlescent glow. At the exhibit’s centre was the sculpture of a young man, who was garbed in warrior gear. As the moon’s luminescent beams danced across his muscular body, the statue began to change. The milky marble evaporated, replaced with the hue of tanned skin. The sculpture moved.

He was a statue no longer; he was a man once again.

The warrior sucked in a breath, filling his lungs for the first time in centuries. He blinked his eyes, and surveyed his surroundings.

The last thing he remembered was fighting the gorgon that had been plaguing his village. He was about to cut the monster’s head off, and then… nothing.

That’s when he realised how terrible his situation was. Those lucky enough to awaken from a gorgon’s curse did not live for long. Inside his chest, his heart was still set in stone. The enigmatic energies that had revived him, would not sustain him for long. If he wished to restart his unbeating heart, he would have to find and kill the gorgon responsible for cursing him.

But first he needed to find himself an ally; someone to help him manoeuvre through the strange modern world…

Photo Description:
A virile, young Greek warrior kneels before a white marble column. He wears brown pteruges around his waist, bracers on his forearms and greaves on his lower legs. One arm is crossed over his body to grip the handle of his still-sheathed sword. His stare is intense and piercing, even as a host of green snakes slither down the column above his head.

This story was written as a part of the M/M Romance Group's "Love is an Open Road" event. Group members were asked to write a story prompt inspired by a photo of their choice. Authors of the group selected a photo and prompt that spoke to them and wrote a short story.

This story may contain sexually explicit content and is intended for adult readers. It may contain content that is disagreeable or distressing to some readers. The M/M Romance Group strongly recommends that each reader review the General Information section before each story for story tags as well as for content warnings.

Reader Reviews

Misty

(4/5)

Jul 06, 2025

** 4.5 Stars **https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...A highly entertaining Action/Suspense/Adventure 'full-length' novel. I do SO LOOVE Aleksandr!!!! Kase is a very endearing character. They are a perfect match for each other!I greatly enjoyed this tale <3Thank You Ladies The gorgon comes, the gorgon knowsSeeking those whose hearts have frozeWhen bitterness will not let goIt brings out fear and hate, pain and woeCountless years they stand and waitMoonglow shines, begins their fateHardened

Debbie McGowan

(5/5)

Lucky me got to edit this. :)I fell in love with Aleksandr the second he stepped into the the middle of the thing I'm not going to mention and reacted in the way someone in his position would, to hilarious effect.Kase is perfectly placed to guide Aleksandr as he...does what someone in his position must do.God, it's hard to review a book sometimes.OK.This story is great. It has adventure, action, a mystery to solve, danger, love, sexy time, and Aleksandr. Did I mention him already?A full-length n...

Sandra

Offered for FREE from the M/M Romance Group's Love Is An Open Road event. Thank you too all the amazing authors who participated!

Didi

I admit, I'm curious because of the prompt pic :-))

A.R. Jarvis

(3/5)

The Porn-to-plot ratio was rather high, but what plot lurked between burning kisses, hard cocks, and steamy baths was okay.

Kevin

I absolutely loved this story based on Greek mythology but set in present day New York. The warrior Alexsandr is new to the modern world and Kase is his guide and host. The two men feel an attraction to each other but both are scared of getting hurt by risking a relationship.There is lots of action and adventure, humor, friendship, and sex. From Alexsandr's perspective you get to see things as perhaps a child would.This was written by two authors, and it is integrated well, except for a minor st...

Alexis Woods

KC Faelan and I are pleased to present to you Metamorphic Heart. What started as a first attempt at coauthoring took a giant leap when we realized that our story would not be some 30k, or even 50k, novella. No, we surpassed 100k and kept right on going. These characters called to us, they are us. Aleksandr, well... that's me. He was mine: his mannerisms, his speech, his ability to adjust and dominate. Kase was KC's. She molded him into the perfect counterpart to Aleksandr, contemporary, but with...

K.C. Faelan

Since I wrote this book with fellow author Alexis Woods, I won't be reviewing it. I'm very excited Metamorphic Heart is out for everyone to read. Co-authoring was quite a learning experience, and I plan on doing it again in the future.Two authors, two different styles of writing, but Alexis and I found through writing Heart, that our styles complimented each other's. Our characters, though also different in personality, blended well too. I created Kase, and Alexis, Aleksandr, but we both wrote e...

Andrea

The more I read the better it got - loved it. Although this works well as a stand alone, I'd love to see the secondary characters have their own books.

Linda ~ they got the mustard out! ~

(2/5)

2.5 starsI couldn't get into the romance in this one. Alek was too handsy too soon, despite not liking being flirted with relentlessly he has no problem doing the same to Kase, despite Kase repeatedly telling him to back off. But for arbitrary plot reasons, they had to fall in love in two weeks, so forced romance it is! Blarg. And it took up way too much time. Too many scenes dedicated to the bedroom, because as we all know, orgasms = true love. 🙄 I ended up skimming/skipping the romance stuff p...

I AM DONE!! I finally finished this book. It was one long, long, loooong book. Far too long for the concept and plot. The only reason I gave it 2 stars is because I loved the concept. The execution needs a lot of editing. If the book was about 20% of the size that it actually is it would be much better.I liked the way the author kept writing Aleksandr's perspective in his actual words/thoughts and not adapt a outsider view as needed to make the writing easier. Small things as keeping saying so-...

Amanda

Wonderful! This is a heartwarming, sexy and lively story. Not only the romance but watching the chosen family develop touched me deeply. Highly recommended from beginning to end. It looks like I've found new authors to follow. :-)

Dayton

So, Metamorphic Heart...I think, as I’m responsible for writing the prompt, it was expected of me to write a gushy bias review. I could have... I could have gushed all over the place, but I didn’t. I didn’t think it would be fair of me to -just- gush, considering all of the obvious effort that went into this writing this story. I wanted my review to be genuine, unbiased and subjective. I wanted to sit and think about what I wanted to say, and really put effort into writing it. I felt I owed it t...

Isindia

Plot *** The Plot is in my opinion the biggest weakness of the book. Although it has a really interesting premise, the story drags quite a bit with too much detailed descriptions of rather boring every day actions and extensive thoughts and too little actual progress ... and with too much detailed descriptions when actual progress happens. The book is very long and for that amount of words there is simply not enough action. It could have used some serious condensing. Now and then I had to force

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