The Paper-Heart Prince: A Dark Fantasy Romance of Cursed Ink, Slow Burn Love, and Gothic Magic (eBook, ePUB)
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A solitary book-mender inherits a sentient ledger that prefers the truthand bites when forced. In a valley ruled by a charming baron who edits lives with the same elegance he edits laws, she refuses to copy a renewed blood-tithe charter that would bind her people to grief. Instead, she sketches a guardian: a prince made of paper and gold, trained in courtesy, designed to stand between her and the next demanded clause. He is a miracle with edges. He is a loophole with a heart. And he is learning that consent is not the baron's to define.When the baron calls for witnesses and opens the stone-cut...
A solitary book-mender inherits a sentient ledger that prefers the truthand bites when forced. In a valley ruled by a charming baron who edits lives with the same elegance he edits laws, she refuses to copy a renewed blood-tithe charter that would bind her people to grief. Instead, she sketches a guardian: a prince made of paper and gold, trained in courtesy, designed to stand between her and the next demanded clause. He is a miracle with edges. He is a loophole with a heart. And he is learning that consent is not the baron's to define.
When the baron calls for witnesses and opens the stone-cut scriptorium, rhetoric turns to machinery. Contracts shift like winter across stone. A quill touches air above a wrist and the gold flinches anyway. He believes everyone is someone to tax, and that a clean hand can be conscripted to make a dirty law look holy. The room applauds what it cannot categorize. But the scribe writes a refusal in the very grammar of the ledger: no clause may compel self-harm as consideration. And somewhere in that night, a nun lifts the Bell of Unmakinga frequency that persuades iron to fail.
What you'll feel inside these pages
Gothic dark fantasy romance with slow-burn tenderness and sharp stakes
Protective, exquisitely mannered hero who was literally created to protectand chooses to love
Morally gray villain whose smile is a trapdoor clause
Legal/ink magic, bookbinder witchcraft, mirrors, bells, seals, and a press that groans like a cello before sleeping
Atmospheric worldbuilding: paste, linen, wax; river light that "writes itself"; workshops where apprentices hide poems in margins; and a bindery that learns the difference between mending and binding.
Who it's for
Readers who search for dark fantasy romance, gothic romance, slow burn, protective hero, morally gray villain, court intrigue, bookish magic, sentient books, consent & power, witchy craft, romantic suspense, villain you love to hate, beautiful prose, healing through choice, happy-but-hard-won endings.
Promise of the story
This is a love story about annotationthe right to revise the script others wrote for you. It's about choosing your own clauses, refusing predatory contracts, and discovering that courtesy can be an armor that does not rust. It's about a made-prince who learns to speak in his own hand and a woman who discovers that mending is not the same as surrender. It's about friends who ring bells when it matters and apprentices who learn to turn fear into better paper. It's about what happens after survival, when you finally have time to argue about blue, boil paste, and make scandalously strong cardamom tea.
If you like Alchemical law, ceremonial courts, protective heroes who weaponize kindness, and heroines who write no into the bones of the page, this story will mark you in the best way: softly, permanently, like a ribbon tied loose because angering a book is unkindand because love breathes better when it's not knotted to please anyone else.
Turn the page. Let the river write. And when the bell rings, let the false metal fall away.
When the baron calls for witnesses and opens the stone-cut scriptorium, rhetoric turns to machinery. Contracts shift like winter across stone. A quill touches air above a wrist and the gold flinches anyway. He believes everyone is someone to tax, and that a clean hand can be conscripted to make a dirty law look holy. The room applauds what it cannot categorize. But the scribe writes a refusal in the very grammar of the ledger: no clause may compel self-harm as consideration. And somewhere in that night, a nun lifts the Bell of Unmakinga frequency that persuades iron to fail.
What you'll feel inside these pages
Gothic dark fantasy romance with slow-burn tenderness and sharp stakes
Protective, exquisitely mannered hero who was literally created to protectand chooses to love
Morally gray villain whose smile is a trapdoor clause
Legal/ink magic, bookbinder witchcraft, mirrors, bells, seals, and a press that groans like a cello before sleeping
Atmospheric worldbuilding: paste, linen, wax; river light that "writes itself"; workshops where apprentices hide poems in margins; and a bindery that learns the difference between mending and binding.
Who it's for
Readers who search for dark fantasy romance, gothic romance, slow burn, protective hero, morally gray villain, court intrigue, bookish magic, sentient books, consent & power, witchy craft, romantic suspense, villain you love to hate, beautiful prose, healing through choice, happy-but-hard-won endings.
Promise of the story
This is a love story about annotationthe right to revise the script others wrote for you. It's about choosing your own clauses, refusing predatory contracts, and discovering that courtesy can be an armor that does not rust. It's about a made-prince who learns to speak in his own hand and a woman who discovers that mending is not the same as surrender. It's about friends who ring bells when it matters and apprentices who learn to turn fear into better paper. It's about what happens after survival, when you finally have time to argue about blue, boil paste, and make scandalously strong cardamom tea.
If you like Alchemical law, ceremonial courts, protective heroes who weaponize kindness, and heroines who write no into the bones of the page, this story will mark you in the best way: softly, permanently, like a ribbon tied loose because angering a book is unkindand because love breathes better when it's not knotted to please anyone else.
Turn the page. Let the river write. And when the bell rings, let the false metal fall away.
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