She called it a life-debt. He called it friendship. Neither expected it to become love.
Jake saved a girl from drowning once. She called it a life-debt. He told her all he wanted was her friendship—forever. That was probably the most expensive word he ever said.
Molly, also known as Molwenwryn, Third Princess of Twilight, has been crossing between her world and his for years. Letters. Stolen summers. Something that grew slowly in the space between visits that they have never quite found the right moment to name. By fae law, the life-debt she owes him should have been settled long ago. The problem is the one person she owes it to keeps refusing to name his price.
When a hedge mage summons Molly into a backyard chalk circle and tries to bind her to his will, Jake disrupts the spell and makes everything significantly worse. Molly is now caught between worlds, her magic thinning every hour she stays, two life-debts on the books, and the Queen of Twilight waiting with cold patience in a stranger's garden.
The punishment if it's not resolved? Stripped of her title, her family, and married off to a prince of the Dream Court. Jake would lose the girl he loves, the one he still hadn’t worked up the courage to ask to stay. Unless the boy who has loved her since childhood can out-negotiate a fae queen in the next five minutes.
Jake is a university student with a crash course in fae law, no magic, and absolutely everything to lose. He's going to try anyway.
In the Court of Twilight, debts don't disappear. They just get more interesting.
For fans of cozy fae fantasy, childhood friends to lovers, and slow-burn romances where the greatest obstacle is the distance between two worlds.
