Urban Fantasy with action, romance, and a darkly imaginative world
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Which will kill me first: my bad luck curse or the fae I’ve bargained with to escape it?
I've always tried to look on the bright side, a challenge when shadowed by a lifelong curse of misfortune. All my attempts to break it have left me in debt up to my eyeballs with the insidious Night Market. Worse, they kidnapped my best friend as collateral.
So I agree to smuggle stolen goods to the heart of the Market to get ahead of my debts--and look for my friend. This job might be our ticket to freedom. I should have known my curse would make a bad situation worse. Now my lucky cat is captive and I'm wanted by a faerie court.
To survive long enough to save my friend and my familiar, I need one more bargain, this time with the alluring and unhinged fae lord of the Wild Hunt. He’ll do anything to get back what was stolen, including working with me, his maybe-predestined-prey.
My time is running out and the last thing I need is to feel more alive when he looks at me, not when the Hunt is fated to steal my last breath.
Cursed Debts is book one in the Urban Fantasy series, the Fae of Dark Hollow. It features a feisty-but-sweet heroine who refuses to give up, a slow-burn star-crossed romance, a faerie punk setting, and one very lucky cat.
She broke his heart, and now he's the only one who can break her chains.
When Iri swore her life to the royal family, she never expected to be sold to an Unseelie warlord as part of a secret bargain. Sacrificed to his cruel touch, she's in a perfect position to spy on the plans of the tyrant - even if it won't buy back her freedom to return to the light court of the fae. She's resolved to honor her vows, until a handsome face from her past shows up to make her question everything.
Adrian left behind his life in that court years ago, and he's sure he'll never see the girl who broke his heart again. When a late-night delivery job puts him face to face with Iri chained to a fae warlord, it drags him right back into old feelings and tangled politics.
As a changeling unwelcome in any court, Adrian’s the last guy anyone would expect to play the hero, and Iri is the last person he thought he’d want to save. Besting her dark captor will involve intertwining their fates with the insidious Night Market, where no court rules and everything has a price. With time running out for Iri, every choice is a gamble, and they must learn to trust one another again to survive.
Cursed Rescue is an Urban Fantasy novella with a kickass heroine, an unlikely hero, the dark side of faerie politics and a second chance forbidden romance full of longing glances. It occurs prior to the events in The Fae of Dark Hollow: Book 1.
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Claire Castellan lives near the Appalachian Mountains with her spouse, a big brown dog, and oodles of cats. As an indie author, she crafts captivating urban fantasy stories featuring complex heroines and worlds steeped in myth and legend, often drawing inspiration from the natural beauty of her surroundings. When she's not writing, she's gardening, hiking, or going on adventures! Oh, and making lots of art of all her characters.