✨ About the Book ✨ Tethered by the Lure of You by K. C. L. A. I. R. In a season lit by candlelight and whispered intentions, two love stories stir-one silenced by time, the other just beginning to bloom. Célise Girard arrives in Paris as a mystery: the daughter of a reclusive merchant and his foreign bride, raised far from the rituals of courtship. She is beautiful but untouched, elegant but untrained. To society, she is novelty. To herself, she is simply surviving the spectacle of being watched. And then there's Sébastien Lemoine. He is the season's most charming rake-well-born, well-spoken, and carefully uninterested. But charm is only his armor. Years ago, he gave his heart to someone who made sincerity feel safe. She left. Since then, Sébastien has trusted nothing but performance. Love, he's learned, is a trick. Desire? Temporary. Sincerity? Dangerous. So when Célise looks at him with quiet honesty, he is both drawn and undone. She reminds him of a feeling he vowed never to need again. But Célise is not the only secret stirring in the room. Beneath her debut lies a love story never spoken-between her father and her aunt, once torn apart by duty and silence. What they denied themselves now echoes in the lives of the young. Set against a world of rain-soaked promenades, folded letters, and long-held glances, Tethered by the Lure of You is a story of longing inherited, desire restrained, and the ache of almost-touching something real.