Tethered Hearts

A merchant girl with a life of freedom. A young man who just wants to settle down. A journey through three enchanted kingdoms. As a roving merchant-or peddler, as many call her-Avery lives a life of freedom that few ever experience. She can navigate the enchanted landscapes of six kingdoms, and she's an expert at finding unique items and matching them with the right customer. If her traveling lifestyle means she doesn't have any close friends, at least she can help communities in need. And it's worth it not to be tied down. She might be alone, but that doesn't mean she's lonely. Elliot would love to be tied to his birth kingdom like most people. Such a restriction might be limiting, but it would be better than being bound to a candelabra-especially once that candelabra gets stolen. With his life on the line, Elliot has to find it-or whatever is left of it. The last thing Avery wants is a pesky stowaway on her cross-kingdom rescue mission-especially not one who claims he's bound to one of the items in her cart. Elliot is equally unhappy to be trailing her through the kingdoms-he's sick of traveling and ready to put down roots. But Avery has promised to help free him from the ties binding him, and he's willing to make a final journey if it means being free of the candelabra. He'll just have to make sure his heart doesn't form its own tie with his beautiful traveling companion. Should be easy, right? Ties of Legacy is book one in Tethered Hearts, a multi-author series of no spice fantasy romances. Each standalone story features a magical bond that forces the couple to discover how much they're willing to sacrifice for the sake of love. This standalone story is set in the world of Melanie Cellier's Kingdoms of Legacy series.

A self-reliant wyvern shifter. An extroverted ice elf. A deadly curse.Wyvern shifter Zidra and ice elf Kyrundar are members of a sacred order of elite warriors-and, according to Zidra, bitter rivals. While she seeks to prove she's the best without aid, Kyrundar believes their friendly competition makes them ideal partners.Then Kyrundar follows Zidra into a trap, and his distraction costs her everything.When Zidra is struck by a lethal ice curse, only ice magic can save her. Yet Kyrundar can't remove the curse, and as long as the curse is affecting Zidra, she can't shift. Worse, a side effect of his aid is a heartbond neither of them wants.Despite years of misunderstandings and recent resentments, they will have to cooperate to survive assassins and find a reclusive healer who can destroy the curse and the magical bond.But if they discover the accidental heartbond isn't a catastrophe after all, will either of them have the courage to admit it? Ties of Frost is book 7 in Tethered Hearts, a multi-author series of no spice fantasy romances. Each standalone story features a magical bond that forces the couple to discover how much they're willing to sacrifice for the sake of love.

A girl hiding in plain sight. A prince trying to save the peninsula. A very inconvenient enchantment. Flora owes her role as a royal bodyguard to her ability to control Dust-the invisible magic created by movement. She doesn't precisely pretend to be a man. She just doesn't correct those who assume the Siqualian princess's bodyguard must be a man…which is everyone. Including the delegation of the foreign prince to whom the princess is betrothed. Prince Cassius's sole purpose in seeking a marriage alliance is to bring strength to the region before outside forces succeed in splintering the peninsula further. When a misunderstanding magically tethers him to the princess's scrawny bodyguard, he thinks his plan couldn't go more wrong. Until the bodyguard reveals herself to be far from the teenage boy he'd assumed-it turns out his plan can go much more wrong. Flora and Cassius find themselves in an uncomfortable bind-especially as their own hearts become as great a threat to the proposed marriage alliance as the outside forces determined to prevent it. When Cassius's enemies emerge from the shadows, and their tether puts Flora in even greater danger than Cassius, both will have to decide what they'll fight to protect…even if it means choosing between their hearts and their kingdoms. Ties of Dust is book eight in Tethered Hearts, a multi-author series of no spice fantasy romances. Each standalone story features a magical bond that forces the couple to discover how much they're willing to sacrifice for the sake of love. Although it's a fully standalone story, Ties of Dust also serves as a prequel to Deborah Grace White's upcoming fantasy series Magic of Dust and Movement.

A hapless human prince. A cynical fae mercenary. An unbreakable bargain.Prince Harmen of Tulpenland, an idyllic duchy of flowers, farm fields, and windmills, has been bargained to the fae to save his little brother's life. He's woefully unprepared for the challenges he's about to face, but he's determined to escape once the bargain is fulfilled. Val's mission should have been simple: deliver the human prince to the fae who holds his bargain. But when they arrive, that fae has already bargained him away to someone else.Tied together with a magical cord, Val and Harm brave dangerous monsters, treacherous fae, and meddling dragons as they attempt to fulfill the bargain so he can escape and she can go her separate way. If only the prince wasn't so cheerfully good. Then Val wouldn't be suffering such a pesky guilt at eventually handing him over to his cruel fate. By the time they reach their destination, will more than a magic cord tie them together? But nothing is as it seems in the Fae Realm. Not even a simple bargain.