‎She stole from a prince and now she has to act like she’s in love with him. Lira Ashborne has always survived the Ashlands by sticking to a few simple things: quick hands, quicker lies, and one rule she never breaks: don't make deals with the Fae. Of course, that’s exactly what she ends up doing. ‎The moment when Shadow Prince Kael catches her stealing from the heart of his court, he doesn’t punish her. Instead, he proposed to her a deal to disguise as his fiancee, help him keep the peace between courts and stay by his side for one season. After that, she’s free to go. ‎Lira says yes, already planning not to keep her word. ‎But Kael’s court isn’t easy to survive. Politics are dangerous, one noble is a little too interested in her and there’s a prophecy that keeps bringing up her name in a language she doesn’t even understand. ‎And then there’s Kael. ‎To pose to be in love with him would be unaffected, if he didn’t look at her like she's important. ‎Like he wanted to protect her ‎So Lira made herself another rule: don’t fall for him. ‎It’s probably not a rule she’ll be able to keep. ‎The Ash Queen’s Bargain is a slow-burn romance about enemies who become something more, set in a world of dangerous courts, stolen secrets and the risk that comes with letting someone get too close.

Emma Carter is twenty-three and out of options. Her father's business is rubble. Her mother is dying by degrees in a hospital that keeps sending bills. When cold, untouchable billionaire Ethan Blackwood offers her a deal for one year as his wife, in exchange for enough money to save her family — she signs. It's a business arrangement. Nothing more. But living under the same roof as Ethan Blackwood turns out to be more dangerous than any contract clause anticipated. He starts protecting her from enemies she never knew existed. He starts coming home before midnight. And the man she thought was made of marble begins, slowly and without permission to feel like home. Emma discovered she's pregnant. When another woman arrives — beautiful, certain and carrying a betrothal agreement that predates Emma's wedding ring. Emma leave before dawn. She doesn't tell him about the baby. Three years later, Ethan Blackwood round the corner of a grocery stores aisle and stopped dead. Because there is a small boy with his exact eyes and that boy is looking at him like they have always known each other. He spents three years searching for his missing wife. He never imagined she was raising his son alone or that he had spent those three years becoming the man she deserved.