Desperate people will do desperate things to survive.
Wealth, privilege, and power don't always lead to happiness.
Money can't buy everything, but freedom has a heavy price tag.
Family dynamics can be a royal pain.
Love can be a choice.
Fang knows trouble. Alien moneylenders, late rent, unpaid debts and generational poverty have all driven her to make a lot of really bad choices - including taking a last-minute job entertaining a wealthy Drass in hopes that she'll make enough cash to escape freezing Anun and start over. Again. Her client is an odd one, but at least he's sweet, gentle and surprisingly cute for a species that looks like a cross between a demon and a dragon, horns and all. After a night of delicious wine, soft kisses and blistering passion Fang drifts off to dreams of warm clothes, regular meals and a place she can call home.
Valen has it all: money, power, a name that guarantees him a life of ease and unimaginable luxury - but he leads a lonely, purposeless life in his father's house and his only friends are paid to look after him. So when a human woman appears in his bedroom, nude and claiming to be his birthday present, he can't help but wonder if he's finally gone mad. But she is real, she is lovely, and she is his for the night. For now Valen can forget who he is, and as he falls asleep with her in his arms he dreams of her becoming a more frequent visitor.
Dawn reveals a horrifying truth, and two strangers are forced to put their trust in each other amid a web of secrets, lies, politics and familial strife. Putting on their best faces in public Fang and Valen must convince their respective people that they can work together for the greater good, and in private their relationship begins to develop from one of convenience into something far more complicated.
On a quiet Spring morning, Avila awoke in her casket, six months after her death.
By some miracle, she was suddenly alive, with no memory of her past life.
Confused, Avila is thrust into a world of where she is a Princess with a secretive family who battles a vicious public upheaval.
And, she is engaged to a wealthy, handsome Prince who couldn't stand who she was before she died.
Avila is forced to piece together her previous life while making sense of her current one, but with a rebellion member who is in love with her, and the attraction growing between her and the Prince, things are only getting more complicated.
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"What about you?" I give him long look. "I don't think you want to consummate a marriage you don't even want."
Something darkens in his expression.
"I wouldn't be so sure about that," he murmurs.
18+
(Themes: Arranaged Marriage, Forced Proximity, Royalty, Love, Romance etc)