The Bargain of Thorns: A Slow-Burn Fae Romance Novella

He has watched her forget him a hundred times.

This year, she remembers.

The fae trade in one currency, and it is not gold. It is memory.

Crushed beneath her dead mother's debt, Wren Marlowe sells a year of her life to the cold, beautiful prince who buys such things.

A simple bargain. A painless extraction. One year she will never miss.

Then the magic fails.

Fragments remain. A pair of hands. A winter garden. Her own laughter inside a year she cannot remember living. A black thorn-mark spreads across her wrist, and the prince who seemed bored by her bargain suddenly goes very still.

What he does not tell her is that he has bought this same year before.

A hundred times. Always from her.

A century ago, Wren made a bargain to forget the one person she was never allowed to love. Now the curse is failing, the thorns are climbing toward her heart and memories of the prince are returning faster than he can take them away.

To survive, she must break a bargain designed to outlive them both.

But the only price fae magic cannot measure may be the one thing she once chose death rather than surrender.

The Bargain of Thorns is a slow-burn, closed-door fae romance novella about one impossible bargain, one forbidden love and a hundred years of trying to forget.

Perfect for readers of A Court of Thorns and Roses and The Cruel Prince who came for the bargain, the fae court and the forbidden love, and would rather have it without the spice.

A fae bargain. Memory as currency. A hundred years of forgetting the same man. A curse climbing toward the heart, and a prince who has bought this year before and never once told her.

Clean. No profanity. About 26,000 words. One sitting.