Brave Royal Web Novels & Stories

I slapped a witch and was cursed. "Two years is what you have left," she said, smiling. "Then you die. Unless you kiss the Lycan King. Three times." *** Earlier, I'd found out my boyfriend was gay. Then, while walking back home with a broken heart, a stranger poured water on my head for no reason at all. And now, I had a countdown to my own death. I've never wanted a crown. I never even wanted to meet the king, the one who has sent home every woman who has ever tried to catch his eye, but then the royal decree arrived: every eligible daughter in the realm is summoned to the kingdom for the Lycan King's bride selection. It was my only chance to get close enough to him. And Xaden, the ruthless king himself, only chooses a woman who treats him well, which would have been easier if I wasn’t being nice to him because I need him to kiss me three times before I die.

He stole her to save his heart. The court's plan was to take hers. Wren Calloway mends locks in a border village, and she has one rule: never leave anything open. Ten years ago she left a gate unlatched — and the fae took her mother through it. On Tithe Night, Prince Rhydian Thornveil breaks his own court's law in front of the whole village. He doesn't take the tithe. He takes her. His heart is turning to black briar-wood, thorn by thorn — the curse that unmade his father. In twenty-nine days the last thorn reaches the centre, and the court will have to kill the thing on the throne. Only one pair of hands can cut the curse-thorn free: hands that can hold cold iron without burning. An iron-hand. Wren is the first found in a hundred years. What the court isn't telling her: their original cure was simpler. Her living heart, grafted in place of his dying one. The prince burned that order before he ever saw her face — and his refusal is treason. Bound by a bargain she negotiated herself — thirty days, her craft for her family's safety and her free departure at the Solstice — Wren must survive a palace of beautiful liars, a regent who calls her "our little remedy," and a prince who is ruthless to everyone except her. Because some things cannot be taken, bought, or bargained for. They can only be given. Stolen by the Fae Prince is a slow-burn enemies-to-lovers fae romantasy with a cursed prince, a competent heroine, lethal court etiquette, and a bargain with teeth. Book 1 of The Veilbound Courts — HFN ending, series HEA guaranteed.

**The Dragon King's Little Bunny** *By Miracle Nicholas* Lucy Hartwell has one night to save her sister's life, and one stranger willing to pay for it. She never expects to see him again. Until she walks into the royal bride selection and meets those golden eyes across the throne room. He's the dragon prince. She's the poor little rabbit the whole kingdom laughs at. And he has decided she's his. But in a palace built on power, a prince's choice is never just a choice. The queen wants her gone. The noble houses want her buried. And the rivals circling the throne have just found the perfect weapon: the one girl the prince will not give up. Every step Lucy takes beside him puts a target on her back. Every day he refuses to let her go, his crown slips a little closer to the edge. He could save his throne by walking away. He won't. And there is something about Lucy that no one, not even she, understands. Something the Moon Goddess has been protecting. Something worth killing for. How long can a little bunny survive in a kingdom of dragons? And what will the prince burn to keep her?