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The Bargain of Thorns: A Slow-Burn Fae Romance Novella
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 18 2026
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
He has watched her forget him a hundred times.
This year, she remembers.
The fae deal in one currency, and it isn't gold. It's memory.
Drowning in her dead mother's debt, Wren Marlowe sells a year of her life to the cold, beautiful prince who buys such things. A clean trade. It means nothing.
Then the extraction fails. Fragments stay behind: a pair of hands, a winter garden, her own laughter from a year she never lived. A black thorn-mark blooms across her wrist. And the prince who looked so bored a moment ago goes very still.
What he doesn't tell her: he has bought this exact year before. A hundred times. From her.
A dying curse. A love that should have killed her. A bargain she made a century ago to forget the one person she was never allowed to remember. Now the thorns are climbing toward her heart, and the only way to break a curse built on bargains is to give the prince the one thing fae magic can never price.
The Bargain of Thorns is a slow-burn, closed-door fae romance novella. One bargain. One love a hundred years in the making. One night to devour it whole.
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