Fierce Highland Magic
(2026)(The third book in the Reckless Hearts of the Highlands series)
A Story by Larissa Emerald
The Fairy MarketLyra Bennett has spent years building a life so sensible that nothing in it can break her heart.
A quiet home. A dependable career. No reckless decisions, no impossible dreams, and certainly no second chances with love. When she takes a solitary trip through the Scottish Highlands, she only wants misty glens, ancient castles, and a little breathing room before returning to the safe life she understands.
Then a woman in green appears beside a rain-swept Highland road.
By the time Lyra stops her car, the woman has vanished—leaving behind a silver thistle pin warm against Lyra’s palm and a whispered warning:
Never bargain with the Fair Folk after midnight.
One wrong turn carries Lyra through the mist and into the Fairy Market, a hidden realm that rises for a single enchanted night every hundred years. Beneath an impossible moon, lantern-lit stalls sell forgotten laughter, bottled courage, and wishes that glitter like stars. But when the market gates close, Lyra learns no mortal may leave before dawn—and every gift comes with a price.
The Fair Folk can smell the dormant magic in her blood: an inheritance tied to an ancient accord between the Highlands and Faerie. The market’s beautiful queen wants that power to bind Lyra to the market forever. Her only hope is Rowan, a charming, disgraced fae prince with a dangerous smile, a hidden past, and far too much interest in the silver thistle pin Lyra wears.
As they race through a garden where emotions bloom into flowers, a midnight ceilidh that reveals every dancer’s secret, and a maze of bargains that can steal a name, a memory, or a dream, Lyra begins to remember how it feels to want more than safety.
But Rowan has made bargains of his own—and before dawn, Lyra must decide whether to protect the guarded heart she has always trusted… or risk it all for a wish that could free the market, restore its forgotten magic, and give them both a future worth choosing.
Because in the Fairy Market, nothing is freely given.
Except, perhaps, love.
Fierce Highland Magic is Book Three in the Reckless Hearts of the Highlands novella series. Each story can be enjoyed as a standalone.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
A quiet home. A dependable career. No reckless decisions, no impossible dreams, and certainly no second chances with love. When she takes a solitary trip through the Scottish Highlands, she only wants misty glens, ancient castles, and a little breathing room before returning to the safe life she understands.
Then a woman in green appears beside a rain-swept Highland road.
By the time Lyra stops her car, the woman has vanished—leaving behind a silver thistle pin warm against Lyra’s palm and a whispered warning:
Never bargain with the Fair Folk after midnight.
One wrong turn carries Lyra through the mist and into the Fairy Market, a hidden realm that rises for a single enchanted night every hundred years. Beneath an impossible moon, lantern-lit stalls sell forgotten laughter, bottled courage, and wishes that glitter like stars. But when the market gates close, Lyra learns no mortal may leave before dawn—and every gift comes with a price.
The Fair Folk can smell the dormant magic in her blood: an inheritance tied to an ancient accord between the Highlands and Faerie. The market’s beautiful queen wants that power to bind Lyra to the market forever. Her only hope is Rowan, a charming, disgraced fae prince with a dangerous smile, a hidden past, and far too much interest in the silver thistle pin Lyra wears.
As they race through a garden where emotions bloom into flowers, a midnight ceilidh that reveals every dancer’s secret, and a maze of bargains that can steal a name, a memory, or a dream, Lyra begins to remember how it feels to want more than safety.
But Rowan has made bargains of his own—and before dawn, Lyra must decide whether to protect the guarded heart she has always trusted… or risk it all for a wish that could free the market, restore its forgotten magic, and give them both a future worth choosing.
Because in the Fairy Market, nothing is freely given.
Except, perhaps, love.
Fierce Highland Magic is Book Three in the Reckless Hearts of the Highlands novella series. Each story can be enjoyed as a standalone.
Genre: Paranormal Romance