Court of Fiends

"Why have you come here?" Cecily Leighton has lost everyone she ever loved. Awash with grief and destitute, she arrives in London at the home of her uncle, the eccentric Baron of Hyssop. She has but a single Season in Town to find a suitable husband. If she fails, she faces an uncertain future as a burden to the estranged family who took her in. But the beau monde is wary of a young lady with too-knowing eyes and questionable background, no matter how lovely. "I was... curious." Julius Darkwood is gentry only by virtue of his vast fortune. Universally mistrusted and with a reputation for incivility, he rarely turns up in the gilded mansions of London’s elite. But his rescue of a woman of rare magical talent from certain death has him skulking through the assembly rooms, trying to secure an introduction to Lord Hyssop’s orphaned niece. "What was that creature in the wood?" The glittering city rests uneasy. The gas lamps and grand buildings of London cannot entirely erase the creeping fear of the things whispered about in old tales. And now, the baron has disappeared without a trace. And somehow Mr. Darkwood is at the center of it all. On the ballroom floor. Dancing with Cecily. Step into another world with this stand-alone Regency romantasy with fae folklore and gothic vibes, full of yearning and star-crossed love.