Meera Wylde can find anything.

Lost relics. Cursed artifacts. People.

So when a lucrative contract pulls her into the cursed Winter Kingdom, she expects another object . . . not a royal target tied to a desperate, starving court.

Then she meets him.

Vareck, the ruthless King of Faerie, has ruled through famine and frost with iron control. He’s morally gray in ways that should terrify her.

For years, they’ve haunted each other’s dreams.

The first time they meet, fate doesn’t unfold in moonlight and romance.

It begins with a kidnapping.

His nephew disappears.

And the curvy, sharp-tongued bounty hunter standing in his halls is the last person who saw him.

Meera is bound by a magical contract she can’t break. Vareck is bound by duty he won’t abandon. He doesn’t trust her, but he can’t let her go.

So he locks her in a guarded chamber to keep her close—and makes it clear no one else will touch what’s under his protection.

Close enough to watch.
Close enough to question.
Close enough to share the only bed in the room.

If she’s deceiving him, he’ll destroy her.

If she’s innocent?

He’ll burn his kingdom to the ground before he lets anyone take her.

*Beneath the Cursed Veil is sarcastically funny, fantasy romance novel with steam. This is book one in the Faeted Seasons: Winter trilogy.*