a human woman and a fae man, Open Door, Explicit, adult · Kesteven Gate
Nothing Left to Declare
She has fined the same fae envoy every autumn for twelve years. She has never once asked why he does not argue.
Cass Holbeck is the assessing officer at Kesteven Gate: six foot, forty-five, and the most even-handed woman on the border. Four undeclared crates on Enfyr's warrant, and she writes the seizure that goes with them — a penalty that does not merely cost him the season. It ends him as an envoy.
He appeals. It is heard line by line, both parties present daily, against originals that cannot leave the building: forty days in one room, neither of them free to walk out.
A borrowed face is a held breath. Forty days across a table from a woman trained to notice what does not match wear it through — and what is under it is nothing she expected.
Then the old warrants show her what twelve years of her fairness has done to him — and the honest finding is the one that takes him away for good.
Human and fae. Forced proximity, a heroine of forty-five who is never enchanted, and a man who cannot hold a face in front of her. Explicit, open door, standalone HEA.
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RomantasyParanormal / MagicLater in Life
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