Frost
Frost
A fae woman with a sharp wit and dry humor stumbles into magic she never wanted. Her forced partnership with a fae male tests her patience at every turn. What begins as annoyance transforms into something neither of them can resist.
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Ava finds her boyfriend cheating on her birthday, gets drunk, and posts a video insulting Torin, the Seelie king. It goes viral. Awkward, because Ava was born fae and raised by a human mother, and she wants nothing to do with the world that abandoned her. Torin's response is not fury but an offer: fifty million dollars to enter the televised competition to become his queen. He wants a marriage of convenience, a queen in name only, and the mouthy exile seems perfect because there is no risk of love. Except the other contenders will literally kill for the crown, the court is a nest of knives, and Torin has a secret that could cost Ava her life.
The reality-TV-meets-fae-court premise sounds like a gimmick and plays like a delight. Ava's narration is funny and bitter in the right proportions, Torin is an ice king with an actual reason for the ice, and the enemies-to-lovers tension gets room to simmer under the fake-marriage math. Crawford keeps the pace fast and the banter mean. The spice, when it arrives, earns its buildup.
Cheating (the ex, early and on page), violence and deaths in the competition, open-door sexual content, alcohol.
For readers who want vicious fae courts with a modern edge, somewhere between The Cruel Prince grown up and a Bachelor season with a body count. Not for readers who dislike present-day banter in their fantasy or who need a quiet, gentle romance.
Book one of the Frost and Nectar series, followed by Nectar.
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