A machine chose her perfect match. But was she his?
Lady Maelin of Theryn has come home to Caelemar, the Crowned City, wanting only her freedom. Instead she finds a brand-new aunt determined to marry her off to the richest bachelor in town, and a ballroom full of candidates. Then the absurd matchmaking machine at her welcome-home ball pairs her with the one man nobody knows anything about.
Lord Cyrus Drake prefers the shadows. Wealthy and elusive, he came to the Theryn ball for information, not romance. One sensual Velarine later—the most scandalous dance in Caelemar'''and he can't get the taste of her out of his mind.
But Cyrus has a secret.
Far beneath the glittering avenues lies the Gloamtide, a city of endless night where fae, shifters, witches, and vampires ply their trades in the Velvet Houses. Someone is butchering them one by one and taking a piece of each victim. And in the remains of the latest, Cyrus finds a significant clue.
Maelin has never been a woman who waits safely at home. She follows Cyrus into the dark, and the deeper they dig, the closer the trail leads to home, and to a monstrous legend Caelemar has tried for generations to forget.
Desire burns hot. Danger cuts deep. And some matches aren't made by machines at all.
Maelin's Miscreation is Book One in the Caelemar series, a steamy gaslamp steampunk romance of magic, mechanicals, and dangerous secrets, set in the city first glimpsed in Book Five of the Arcvale series.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Lady Maelin of Theryn has come home to Caelemar, the Crowned City, wanting only her freedom. Instead she finds a brand-new aunt determined to marry her off to the richest bachelor in town, and a ballroom full of candidates. Then the absurd matchmaking machine at her welcome-home ball pairs her with the one man nobody knows anything about.
Lord Cyrus Drake prefers the shadows. Wealthy and elusive, he came to the Theryn ball for information, not romance. One sensual Velarine later—the most scandalous dance in Caelemar'''and he can't get the taste of her out of his mind.
But Cyrus has a secret.
Far beneath the glittering avenues lies the Gloamtide, a city of endless night where fae, shifters, witches, and vampires ply their trades in the Velvet Houses. Someone is butchering them one by one and taking a piece of each victim. And in the remains of the latest, Cyrus finds a significant clue.
Maelin has never been a woman who waits safely at home. She follows Cyrus into the dark, and the deeper they dig, the closer the trail leads to home, and to a monstrous legend Caelemar has tried for generations to forget.
Desire burns hot. Danger cuts deep. And some matches aren't made by machines at all.
Maelin's Miscreation is Book One in the Caelemar series, a steamy gaslamp steampunk romance of magic, mechanicals, and dangerous secrets, set in the city first glimpsed in Book Five of the Arcvale series.
Genre: Paranormal Romance