THE FAE'S BARGAIN
READING AGE 18+
She came for the money.
She stayed for something she never planned to want.
Darcy Vane has one rule: never make a deal you can't walk away from.
She breaks it on a Tuesday in November, when a gold-eyed stranger in a Notting Hill antiques shop offers her £600,000 in exchange for thirty days pretending to be his Fae consort. Her father's debt — the one that has been choking her life for three years — gone. Triple. All she has to do is play pretend for a month in a world she didn't know existed.
She shakes his hand.
The mark appears on her wrist before she can change her mind.
Caspian Ashworth is not what she expected: three centuries old, a prince in exile, returning to a dying court full of immortals who want him dead and a brother who wants everything he has. He chose Darcy because she can see through glamour, survive court politics, and won't flinch. He did not choose her to feel things about.
He's feeling things.
The bond they're faking has rules neither of them agreed to — shared dreams, shared chambers, and a magic that responds to emotions they're both desperately pretending not to have. The court is watching. The clock is running. And somewhere between the masquerade balls and the midnight confessions and the kiss she will absolutely not think about, Darcy Vane stops performing.
That's when everything gets dangerous.
The Fae's Bargain is an 18+ fantasy romance featuring fake dating, Fae court politics, a slow burn that ignites, and a debt collector who turns out to be exactly what a dying court needs.
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Caspian POV
I had been watching her for three weeks.
This is not something I would normally do. I am not, by nature or by practice, someone who watches. I observe — there is a difference, a significant one — and I observe because three centuries of existing in spaces where the wrong read of a situation could get you killed ……
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