Ardelia Zorov
A Lesson in Ruin
A human girl with one Season to marry into Fae nobility and save her father’s clinic. Borrowed gowns, a sharp tongue, no magic at all.
“Where I’m from, pretty things often bite.”
Heroines who refuse their place, and the rakes, pirates, hunters and gods who never stood a chance.

A Lesson in Ruin
A human girl with one Season to marry into Fae nobility and save her father’s clinic. Borrowed gowns, a sharp tongue, no magic at all.
“Where I’m from, pretty things often bite.”
A Lesson in Ruin
The Fae court’s most scandalous rake, newly assigned as her tutor. He read romance novels as a boy and called it research.
“Restraint and I have never been introduced.”
A Kiss of Salt
An Ice-Fae lady jilted before four hundred witnesses, who has borne all of it with excellent posture. Last season’s villain, this season’s heroine.
“I want you to stop deciding things about me from across a room.”
A Kiss of Salt
Water-Fae, foul-mouthed, unreasonably shirtless, and master of a living ship whose crew votes on everything.
“Fancy potato.”

All five books
A blacksmith’s daughter who has hidden forbidden fire for twenty years, until an ancient forge answers to her blood.
“Don’t say my name again tonight. You haven’t earned the way you say it.”
The Forgotten Flame
The king’s own blade, sent to hunt the girl whose forge lit itself. He finds her lying to his face.
“I almost pity the pyre, blacksmith. You are going to be so difficult to burn.”
The Forgotten Flame
The charming rebel who keeps getting in her way, and enjoys it.
“Blame me all you want. I like the attention.”
The Veil of Shadows
Cursed by the old gods nine centuries ago. He has waited for her ever since, with all the patience of the damned.
“I have no interest in being paid. I have every interest in being chosen.”

A Kiss Before Midnight
Home in Cresset, Vermont, only to settle her father’s estate and leave again. Then she kisses a stranger at a masquerade.
A Kiss Before Midnight
He knows how she takes her coffee. He knows a name nobody has ever called her. She has never seen him before in her life.