Heart of the Fae
Part of the The Otherworld · Book 1
Once upon a time...
A plague sweeps across the emerald hills of U N ill, leaving a young midwife's father with months to live. To save her people, Sorcha makes a deal with a dangerous Fae. She must travel across the sea, through merrow and kelpie lands, to find a forgotten king on a crumbling throne.
Born king of the Seelie Fae, Eamonn fought battles unnumbered to uphold honor, duty, and freedom... until his twin brother sank a blade between his shoulders. Crystals grew from the wound, splitting open skin and bone. His people banished him to a cursed isle for his disfigurement, now king of criminals and fools.
With the help of brownies, pixies, and will-o'-the-wisps, Sorcha battles to break through his crystalline shell and persuade him to take back his stolen throne.
This determined beauty could come dangerously close to stealing his beastly heart.
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Heart of the Fae
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The prose does the work without showing off. You forget you're reading and just fall in.
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The slow burn is genuinely slow. It earns every inch of tension instead of stalling for length.
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The ending lands. No cheap cliff just to sell you the next one. (Okay. Maybe a small one. You'll survive!)
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