Out of Dusk’s Shadow

Spice Level 1- Candlelight- Tender slowburn- longing and glances emotional intimacy.  Handholding/ kissing. Fade to black.  

A tale of magic and romance set during the Regency Era in a fantasy mirroring of 1800s England

Lord Sebastien “Bastien” Savila is a social outcast due to fear stemming from his strong role in a magic rebellion almost fifteen years prior. He is also responsible for ensuring his niece of fifteen has every opportunity to establish a fortunate marriage connection in a society driven by social expectations and petty vindictiveness. When the Baylores and Lady Cara move into the county to seek aid from his potion-making prowess, he finds the Lady both distasteful and drawing in equal measure. He does not know why Lady Cara’s Sitar—her magic essence—pulls against his own nor why it seems to deepen. To complicate matters, an unknown rogue, the son of a man Bastien served alongside in the rebellion over a decade before, wants Bastien to stand beside him and assist with a new rebellion that could have dire consequences.

Lady Cara Baylore, unmarried in her mid-thirties but wealthy and affluent enough to not need such a connection, despises society’s expectations even if she unconsciously expects adherence from others. Meeting Lord Savila, she finds him off-putting and cold, though she does not yet know the rumors darkening his reputation. Her primary concern is safe-guarding her sister in law, Joi, who nearly died during the last pregnancy and Lord Savila’s well-known potion-making abilities are the best means of that. But she soon learns there is far more to the man than their society is willing to see and a gentleness she did not expect.