a human woman and a fae man, Open Door, Explicit, adult · Kesteven Gate

Payable in Full

The autumn court owes forty years of arrears. The collateral it pledged is a man — and his repayment schedule is hers.

Nan Ainsworth is the auditor of record at Kesteven Gate. Iolan is a lord of that court, three hundred years old, wearing the beautiful borrowed face it sends to stand at counters — and by statute, living security lodges with the officer administering the debt. So he lodges in her back bedroom, on a docket-stamped term.

Working the ledger honestly is the first disaster: the arrears are worse than declared, and the shortfall she must enter keeps him under her roof two seasons longer than any glamour can be held.

When the face slips, she tells him she would rather have whatever is under it. He lets it go — and finds he cannot put it back up for anybody at all. Then a forty-year-old entry proves the debt is payable now, and her accuracy is the only thing that can send him home.

Human and fae. Forced proximity, a tall and strongly built heroine who is never enchanted. Explicit, open door, standalone HEA in the world of «Hoarfrost». For fans of Grace Draven and Sarah J. Maas.

Publication
October 2026
Pages
≈ 160

Categories

RomantasyParanormal / MagicParanormal / General

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