Twilight Mages

Dawn mage. Twilight mage. Cursed, useless, damaged, dangerous… His birth magic leaves Prince Nikola with nothing but bad choices: live as another man's possession, subject to his whims and his desires, or remain dependent on a potion that stunts his powers and prevents him from knowing love. Andreas vows to protect the prince with his life-whether Nikola wants him to or not. After all, the queen pays his soldier's wage. Nikola's nothing but a job to do. But when they find themselves stranded, with Nikola's potion running out, Andreas has to… improvise. Because what Prince Nikola needs to survive is the opposite of a lowly guard's respectful protection. It should've been only one night. Just until the potion's refilled. But since Nikola had Andreas's touch, he craves Andreas again and again. He shouldn't. But he-and his magic-can't live without it…

Unwanted. Unloved. Unransomed. And unable to control his dawn magic by any other means… At odds with his family and on the run, Lord Cyril is taken prisoner and held in a gloomy mountain fortress-which he brightens up quite a bit, thank you. His captor wants him to be quiet and not cause any trouble, but who cares? Cyril may need the mysterious highwayman to quell his dawn magic and keep him sane, but he's overbearing, sardonic, and unpleasant. Mostly. Except when Cyril can't live without his touch, or his voice, or his rare smile… Ser Enzo, a robber and (not quite) a gentleman, desperately wants his obnoxious, adorable, irritating, irresistible captive off his hands…and other parts. Lord Cyril's wanton, irrepressible, and worst of all-his family won't take him back. Enzo can't release him without being paid. It's against his principles. But so is keeping his bewitching captive forever. Cyril may be his prisoner, but Enzo's dangerously close to losing his own freedom by falling under the mage's spell…

Betrayed, beset on all sides, and possibly bewitched… Since the sudden, suspicious, and unlamented death of his father, only one man stands between Lucian and the grudging acceptance of his subjects: Benedict, a powerful dusk mage, a military hero, the favorite of the ducal council… and Lucian's stepbrother. Not that Benedict wants a shackle disguised as a crown. He'd rather start a new, anonymous life a thousand miles away and leave that beautiful, icy, sneering little cretin Lucian to whatever grim fate awaits him. But when Lucian comes to him in the middle of the night, terrified and desperate but still as infuriatingly arrogant as ever, Benedict agrees to keep Lucian alive and on the throne. On one condition: Lucian must give in to Benedict's long-hidden desires and allow Benedict to use him, in every possible way, to sate his cursed magic's demands. Lucian detests Benedict. He despises what he becomes when Benedict touches him. And it might be the death of him, if his father's murderer doesn't kill him first… The Traitor's Curse is the third book in the Twilight Mages series, but it can be listened to as a standalone. Contains family secrets, unbecoming behavior in a throne room, and a duke who protests far, far too much. HEA guaranteed!