A maid blackmails a fae prince to save her mother's life. The prince lies to hide an identity. Neither one counted on an impossible love.
All Elora wants is to find a way her mother can survive the wasting illness. She has no idea or means to do it until she finds the prince, Duke, with a secret project his royal family would balk at. Blackmailing him is her only option to buy the vampire venom her mother so desperately needs.
Duke has ambition he's not supposed to have. He's expected to fulfill his social obligations and play the role of prince. He wants to be an inventor, so he hides his attempts at the first ever flying machine as well as an illegal pet, a phoenix he's mind melded to. He'll do anything to hide both.
What Duke and Elora don't expect is to fight feelings neither should be having for each other. She's a maid. He's a prince. He's expected to marry well. Love, however, has other plans.
For fans of adventurous fantasy with clean romance comes the fourth book in Realms of Lurin, a multi-author collection of standalone magical regency-inspired fantasy novellas that take place in the same world.