The Bargain of Thorns

He has watched her forget him a hundred times.
This year, she remembers.

The fae deal in one currency, and it isn't gold. It's memory.

Drowning in her dead mother's debt, Wren Marlowe sells a year of her life to the cold, beautiful prince who buys such things. A clean trade. It means nothing.

Then the extraction fails. Fragments stay behind: a pair of hands, a winter garden, her own laughter from a year she never lived. A black thorn-mark blooms across her wrist. And the prince who looked so bored a moment ago goes very still.

What he doesn't tell her: he has bought this exact year before. A hundred times. From her.

A dying curse. A love that should have killed her. A bargain she made a century ago to forget the one person she was never allowed to remember. Now the thorns are climbing toward her heart, and the only way to break a curse built on bargains is to give the prince the one thing fae magic can never price.

The Bargain of Thorns is a slow-burn, closed-door fae romance novella. One bargain. One love a hundred years in the making. One night to devour it whole.