4 Results with the "Royal Court Romance" genre
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By the second night, Elara had stopped pretending she was here against her will. Kael had warned her, in his particular dry way, that the second night was when the bargain began to take — when whatever quiet, sensible woman she had been on the mortal side of the birches would begin to admit, in increments, that she had walked the mist-path because she wanted to be walked back through it as someone else. He had not lied. The fae could not. That was the cruel architecture of them. He came to her in the…-
1.2 K • Ongoing
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Chapter 1 — The Bargain
The path to the Unseelie Court did not exist on any map Elara Vale had ever read, and she had read every map in Highmoor's restricted archives. She had also read every grimoire, every diplomatic transcript, every footnote-strangled treatise on fae bargains the Academy permitted scholars to touch — and three more that the Academy did not. None of them had prepared her for the smell. The mist-path opened between two iron-grey birches at the seam of the moor, and beyond the seam, the world smelled of…-
1.2 K • Ongoing
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Chapter 2 — First Night
The chamber prepared for her first night was not a bedroom. It was a study — one wall of books in languages Elara could only half-read, one wall of stained glass that depicted what looked uncomfortably like the Highmoor Academy in flames, a hearth that gave off no smoke, and a single low couch upholstered in something that breathed when she sat on it. She did not ask. The fae did not appreciate being asked. "You expected a bed," Kael said from the doorway. He had changed his coat for something looser,…-
1.2 K • Ongoing
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Crown of Velvet Thorns
When mortal scholar Elara strikes a midnight bargain with the Unseelie Prince Kael for her sisters life, she doesnt realize she has signed away seven nights of her own — and the wickedness he plans to lavish upon every one of them.-
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