Contemporary paranormal romance — explicit, open door. · The Havards

Sapphires at Her Throat

Every stone she has ever worn on a stage is glass. The man in row C cannot bear to watch it.

Corinna Pendry sings in her late grandfather's paste and believes an audience only ever has to believe. Six weeks of country-house opera in the Shropshire hills should be one more season out of one more trunk. Then Laurence Havard books the same aisle seat for every performance, says so openly, and never once comes backstage uninvited.

He runs hot enough to feel across a garden. He offers her real stones for the stage, and she refuses them, because the paste is her trade and not his to improve. The refusal costs him visibly, every night. She takes his house, his heat and his bed anyway.

Then the company's director goes after his money without asking either of them, and to everyone watching, she looks bought. To keep her work her own, she may have to give up the one real thing she has ever wanted to keep.

Explicit, open door, no fated mates, guaranteed HEA. A standalone novella in The Havards. Perfect for fans of Thea Harrison and Katee Robert.

Publication
October 2026
Pages
≈ 164

Categories

Paranormal / ShiftersContemporaryRomantasy

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