The Spellbinding Courtship
Calatini Tales, Book 0.5
Welcome to Calatini, an enchanting Regency-inspired kingdom filled with faegifts, witches, and heartwarming romance.
Miss Selena Midor is lonely, close to destitute, and trapped far away from home with her cruel uncle. She’s grown accustomed to outwitting him to keep herself safe, but when she overhears her uncle’s evil scheme with a witch, Selena must make a choice no lady of quality should have to make. She must find a man to deflower her, and quickly.
Aragon, eldest son of the Duke of Childes, is caught in the rain without even a spelled cloak to protect him. So he stumbles into a brothel… and finds Selena. Though tempted, Aragon is too honorable to accept Selena’s desperate overtures. He can’t take from her what she should give to the gentleman she loves.
Selena is astonished when Aragon instead offers to bring her home for his family to present at court. She accepts his rescue but longs to be more than his charity case. Yet Aragon refuses to act on their attraction, and soon he isn’t the only eligible bachelor spellbound by Selena. Should she wait for Aragon or choose another?
Fans of Half a Soul, Midnight in Everwood, and Julia Quinn’s Bridgerton series will be enthralled by the Calatini Tales series of Regency-inspired historical romantasy novels.
Excerpt:
When the bedroom door finally opened and a man entered, Selena froze like a hunted moonrabbit. From the cut of his sodden clothes, he was a gentleman, likely a rich one. And he was handsome with seal-brown hair, dark-umber eyes, and strong features. What was such a gentleman doing at a brothel like this?
She and the gentleman stared at one another for a long moment. Her skin tingling, she forgot to breathe. He was exactly what she’d pick given a choice. She inhaled and lifted her chin. She’d better get started on her plan. She strode across the room and smashed her lips against his.
* * *
Dumbfounded by the spellbinding lady’s rough kiss, Aragon froze.
The lady threw her arms about his neck and continued mauling his lips. She knew nothing about kissing. So why was she in a brothel near the docks? She must be more desperate than he’d realized. ‘Twould be wrong to exploit her desperation, no matter how much he hungered to kiss her for real.
He wrenched his head away and rasped, “What is this?”
Her arms fast about his neck despite his dripping clothes, the lady scowled at him. “Kissing, of course.”
Aragon couldn’t resist a snort. “That was not kissing.”
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