Poison and Honey
Poison and Honey
Leigh Morgan's mission is simple: pose as a servant in the dark, decadent palace of Otherworld, gather intelligence, and destroy the fae monsters who stole her sister. She's not here to be seduced by silken lies and dangerous magic. But when she catches the eye of a cunning fae prince, everything changes.
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Leigh Morgan's sister was taken by the fae, and Leigh has done the math on what that means: nobody is coming to help, so she'll do it herself. She poses as a servant in Otherworld's palace — a place that's beautiful the way poison bottles are beautiful — gathering intelligence for a small band of humans working to free the people trapped there. The plan works right up until she catches the attention of a cunning fae prince who sees through her act and doesn't immediately turn her in. What follows is a cat-and-mouse game where both players are lying and neither is sure who's winning. It's novella-length and moves like it — palace intrigue, quick chapters, and a heroine whose first instinct is a knife, not a swoon.
The pacing. This is romantasy with the filler surgically removed — Brand comes from superhero fiction and it shows in how fast scenes turn over. Leigh is refreshingly mission-focused: she never forgets her sister to moon over a pretty face, which makes the slow thaw between her and the prince feel earned rather than inevitable. The enemies-to-lovers dynamic runs on genuine opposing interests, not misunderstandings.
Abduction and captivity, mind control and memory manipulation, violence, threats to a family member.
Readers who liked the mortal-among-fae danger of The Cruel Prince or C.N. Crawford's Shadow Fae books, and anyone who wants fae court intrigue in a fast, bingeable package. Heat is low — all tension, a fade-to-black payoff late in the trilogy — so it also suits readers who want the fae romance without explicit scenes. If you want 500-page epics or high spice, this isn't that.
Book 1 of the completed Dark and Otherworldly trilogy — Poison and Honey, Sting of Thorns, then The Cruelest Curse. The books are novella-to-short-novel length and designed to be read in order; the trilogy tells one continuous story.
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