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About The Moonlit Bride

The house can tell when a kiss stops being pretend.

Rowan Ellis has handled runaway grooms, feuding in-laws, and a bride who set her own veil on fire.

She has never handled a wedding party that died in 1815.

The job at Blackthorn Manor pays enough to save her business: finish a ceremony abandoned two centuries ago. Then she meets the bride. Lenora Vale is two hundred and forty-one years old, wickedly dry, achingly beautiful, and has not been touched in longer than Rowan has been alive.

Every full moon, the wedding starts again. Every full moon, it ends in blood.

Rowan’s solution is professional, temporary, and completely sensible: pose as Lenora’s new fiancée until they can find the loophole in the marriage contract.

There is just one problem. The contract’s hidden clauses are written on Lenora’s skin, and they only appear when she comes undone.

So Rowan will have to read every word.

The Moonlit Bride is a high-heat sapphic gothic romance with a cursed bride, a fake engagement, only one bed, a haunted wedding party with opinions, a wedding planner who treats the dead as clients, a lot of on-page spice, and a guaranteed HEA. Book 1 of The Blackthorn Brides.

Why readers will love it

A cursed bride who is 241 years old, wickedly dry, and has never once been asked what she wants
A wedding planner heroine at 33, soft and freckled and frighteningly competent, who asks the dead whether they still require place settings
A fake engagement the house believes, and only one bed in the bridal suite
A marriage contract written on the bride’s skin in silver, one clause at a time, and only when she comes
“Ask first, every time,” a stop word, and terms written up on a whiteboard
A glasshouse full of moonflowers, a copper bath, a study desk, and a heroine who has to learn to take

Ebook edition details

Format: Digital EPUB ebook (not a paperback or audiobook). Heat: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Inferno. Audience: Adults 18+.

Content notes

⚠️ Content Warning: This novel contains explicit sexual content (graphic FF scenes, including a strap-on), consensual power exchange, a supernatural curse in which a heroine is repeatedly killed and revived (on-page stabbing and blood), a historical massacre and drownings recounted on the page (including the death of a child), ghosts and the dead, a coerced historical marriage and women conveyed as property in a contract, a love interest withholding information from her partner (the story treats it as a breach), manipulation by an antagonist, and strong language. Intended for readers 18+.

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