Folklore

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Masks and Moonbeams
Masks and Moonbeams

by Kanika Singhal

Tropes: characterdriven, dualpov, strongfmc

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To be loved is to be known. Princess Lata moonlights as a vigilante and finds an ally worth dying for. But what does this man have to do with her good-for-nothing fiancĂ©? Chakor captures the Moon God. Now she needs to let him go. Or watch him die. To keep her promise to her dying queen, General Ria lives her life under a mask. But an old friend returns, and now she has a choice – lose her heart or break her oath. Chitrani falls in love with a Snake prince as a child. Years later, why does her fiancĂ© look so much like the boy she lost? And Kalindi – the village healer – tries to evict a long-healed warrior from her hut by making him do housework. She doesn’t know he is a prince. “... being truly seen beneath expectations, titles, and carefully guarded secrets.” – Amazon Reviewer, Canada “The romances are tender without being cheesy and the mix of mythology and folklore gives it personality.” – Amazon Reviewer, Spain In this collection of clean fantasy romance, five women find themselves seen — truly seen — by the last person they expected. Five stories. Five happy endings. No cliff-hangers. Masks and Moonbeams is the first book in the Of Queens and Rascals series — fantasy romance rooted in Indian mythology, folklore, and history — fierce heroines, heroes who earn their place, and love that sees through every mask. “... a shiny gate to escape from the reality of modern, fast-paced life.” – Amazon Reviewer, Germany [Read More]

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The Tale of the Clock-Heart
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The Tale of the Clock-Heart

by Montrose Starling

Tropes: characterdriven, strongfmc, darkromance

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A brilliant clockmaker, a desperate ultimatum, and a husband built by her own hands. Deaf and non-verbal since childhood, Marguerite Rousseau is given three months to marry or lose her late father's clock shop to a distant, predatory cousin. Refusing to surrender her independence to a patriarchal legal code that demands her subjugation, she locks her doors, opens her father's cabinet, and engineers a masterpiece: a towering clockwork husband crafted from rosewood, brass, and porcelain. Aurel cannot speak, and Marguerite cannot hear. Together, they forge a profoundly intimate sanctuary built on private sign language and the deep, mechanical vibrations resonating from his clock-heart directly to her pulse. What begins as a desperate legal contrivance winds into a soul-stirring romance, measured out in quiet, deliberate devotion: the twenty-six daily turns of a brass key, shared hours at the workbench, playful arguments over a stray cat, and riotous garden coaxed from dead earth. But when Marguerite's cousin returns with the law in his valise, determined to take her shop by force and ruin her name, the violent world beyond their shutters threatens to shatter their fable. Marguerite built Aurel to be a gentle companion, but as the village is forced to decide its true loyalties, she is about to discover just how fiercely her creation will stand between her and the wolves at their door. The Tale of the Clock-Heart is a sweeping, folkloric love story about the boundaries of the soul, told in the small turns of a shared life. For Readers Of: The Golem and the Jinni, Frankenstein, and The Wicker Husband. [Read More]

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Lightbreaker
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Lightbreaker

by Tina Capricorn

Tropes: slowburn, forcedproximity, characterdriven

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“What if your magic killed the ones you love?” Chloe Lemair, last Aeorian witch in existence, knows the answer. Abstaining from her innate power, Chloe buries herself in work—cutting hair as a barber, and keeping the peace as warden of the last sanctuary for the magicborn in a world devastated by the Climate Event. Late one summer night, the world’s oldest living vampire walks into her shop. Vladimir Lazarus Shadowglass wastes no time baring truths about Chloe’s bloodline, duty and a burning connection her magic recognizes. He awakens powers she didn’t know she possessed—and a desire she swore she’d buried. However Vlad was sent by the Corporate Republic, a techno-fascist empire powered by stolen magic. Their aim? The complete control of all magic wielders on Earth, especially Chloe. Her devotion to Vlad is exactly the leverage they’ve been waiting for. If Chloe cannot separate destiny from manipulation, she risks losing not just the vampire who is becoming everything but the sovereignty of the last free place on Earth. A slow burn fantasy romance for readers who want magic, blood, and destiny that was written before time even existed. LIGHTBREAKER is set in the SHADOWGLASS UNIVERSE and takes place after the events of THE ANCHOR OF TIME. Standalone read with series context. [Read More]

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Hearts and Hairpins
Hearts and Hairpins

by Kanika Singhal

Tropes: characterdriven, dualpov, strongfmc

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We all hide. And we all deserve to be seen. Princess Sindhu enters enemy territory to save a man she has long been in love with. Except, he doesn’t know her. Veena finally has the undivided attention of Sardar Vindhya. So what if he is the most ruthless teacher in the military academy, and she is his only student? Archer Ratna and Mage-Prince Shyamak are the best in their fields. Unless they are around each other. The Queen of Malinivan offers her husband the mercy of forgetting, and quietly refuses it for herself. Tarini has disguised herself as a man for years. Then she is ordered to take a diva prince through the Himalayas. Five new stories from the world of queens, princes, rascals, and divas — and the inconvenient people who see right through them. Five stories. Five happy endings. No cliff-hangers. No exceptions. Just love, in all its stubborn, spectacular inconvenience. Hearts and Hairpins is the second book in the Of Queens and Rascals series — fantasy romance rooted in Indian mythology, folklore, and history — fierce hearts, worthy loves, and the impossible relief of being truly known. [Read More]

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The Runaway Prince
The Runaway Prince

by Kanika Singhal

Tropes: slowburn, characterdriven, dualpov

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She broke up to save him. He ran to find her. Yaksha prince Samar is trapped – by his own curiosity – in the mortal world after his engagement with Jansthan’s princess Chandra ended. Anywhere else would have been acceptable, but he is stuck by the cruel princess’ side. As her maid. Princess Chandra doesn’t know that the new maid she hired is none other than the fiancĂ© she left behind. So when she expects the maid to wait on her… Well, Prince Samar’s ego has never taken such a battering. Neither has his self-control. Worse, the princess seems to have taken a liking to her new maid. Samar gets treated like a Sakhi – Chandra’s dearest woman friend. He’d better not let the Yakshas find out about his humiliation. And yet, he can’t bring himself to leave. The Jansthan kingdom is starving under a spell that blinds its people to the truth. The queen they trust isn't who she pretends to be, and every day she rules, she drains more of the land's magic for herself. Chandra must break the spell before there's no kingdom left to save. She manipulated Samar into breaking their engagement. All to protect him from the queen's greed. No one can know, least of all Prince Samar, that Princess Chandra hides a secret – she is in love with her ex. Myths and Mortals: Book 1. A clean fantasy romance. No cliffhangers. HEA guaranteed. [Read More]

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Ribbons and Royals
Ribbons and Royals

by Kanika Singhal

Tropes: characterdriven, dualpov, strongfmc

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What is divine without the devotee? Even the most powerful beings yearn to be truly seen. Five new stories from the world of gods, tyrants, princesses and rascals — and the one person in the world they cannot hide from. The princess of Mithila names her imaginary friend Vish, and tells him to come marry her. The princess who has decided the kindest thing she can do for the man she loves is make him hate her. The woman who lets a snake with an attitude into her house, and now he won’t leave. The princess of Chandanpur who recognises her childhood friend behind his disguise — and decides to have some fun with him. The tyrant who loses his entire reputation for tyranny because of one woman. Five stories. Five happy endings. No cliff-hangers. No exceptions. Gods and mortals, curses and kingdoms, love that outlasts every disguise. Ribbons and Royals is the third book in the Of Queens and Rascals series — fantasy romance rooted in Indian mythology, folklore, and history — fierce hearts, worthy loves, and the impossible relief of being truly known. [Read More]

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The Red Spring
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The Red Spring

by P M Fox

Tropes: slowburn, characterdriven, foundfamily

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Lizzy Stone loves her little Cornish island. She rises with the sun and she dances with the moon. She dives with the gannets and bathes with the seals. Her worship is hot and red. The Devil covets Lizzy’s island. He wants nothing more than its consumption, its integration into His calculating, mechanical designs. His desire is synthetic and bottomless. When the Devil comes a storm always comes with Him. Sort of a tradition. Only this time it will be different. THIS time His covetousness will be satiated. This time He’ll take the island for His own. Lizzy, new initiate into the order of sacred whores who protect the island, isn’t going to let Him. She’s fallen in love with Percy, a fellow apprentice. No one gets to threaten Percy’s first real home. And no one’s taking Lizzy's little sister away either, hopelessly dazzled by the glittering mainland lights as she may be. A storm will rage. Telephone poles will fall and bridges will be washed away. Say good night to the electrics and the moon and the stars. Lizzy and Percy were born in darkness, but even they’re not prepared for what’s coming. [Read More]

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