Description
Lord Willowvale’s icy heart has begun to thaw, but it will take a fiery Fair maiden to melt him.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single fairy in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
Lord Ash Willowvale is wealthy and eligible, albeit famously disagreeable, but he is hardly looking for a wife, and the Fair maiden who catches his eye certainly wasn’t hoping to. She is merely doing her job as bodyguard for the Fair ambassador, who has been imprisoned in Aricht.
When Lord Willowvale is tasked with extricating the Fair delegation, his difficulties are only beginning. His task seems impossible, his past is deeply offensive to the Fair maiden he quickly grows to respect, and his own guilt threatens to crush him.
Friendship broke down his prejudice; will love break his legendary pride? Will he ever be able to tell the lovely maiden who captured his heart how ardently he admires and loves her?
A clean, noblebright fantasy Pride and Prejudice reimagining in the world of The Wraith. Come for the Jane Austen+magic feel, stay for the redemption arc!
The audiobook is available from CJBrightley.com.
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Reviewers say:
This is the book about Willowvale I never knew I needed, and that crotchety Fae lord is the Mr. Darcy that we didn’t know we were waiting for.
– JA Andrews, author of the Keeper Chronicles
A reimagining of Pride and Prejudice unlike any I’ve ever seen. I never thought I’d enjoy spending so much time following someone as rigid and cold as Willowvale, but here I am, a hardcore Willowvale fan, on the edge of my seat to see if he saves the fiery Fair maiden and wins her heart. The Frost and the Flame is full of sparkling prose and vibrant characters, all against the backdrops of tense politics and quiet afternoon teas.
– Constance Lopez, author of the Kasmian Chronicles
A Fair lord’s pride meets its match in a sweet Fair maid’s prejudice in this delightful tale of politics and romance.
– L. Jagi Lamplighter, author of Books of Unexpected Enlightenment
C.J. Brightley has done it again with this fantastic, soul-healing, wholesome story of forgiveness, justice and true redemption. A final installment of her Victorian Pride-and-Prejudice-but-make-it-Faery series, this story features the irascible, dislikable and (almost) unredeemable Willowvale through the uncomfortable realization that he was catastrophically wrong and may be unable to make it right. Under the weight of Theo’s kindness, Willowvale struggles to emerge from the depths of regret and wrestles to accept friendship, affection, and even love. Brightley skillfully navigates the healing of a soul, and the righting of what was wrong through gorgeous prose, believable growth, and charming dialogue.
– Alora Carter, co-author of The Little Morsel