The character romance between Selly and Jarden isn’t forced it’s actually organic within the story, which is refreshing. There are scintillating sexual encounters, but those scenes don’t drive the plot, which unfortunately in this flooded book market is what seems to be the thrust of most books. She doesn’t just craft the standard sexfest, that seems to oversaturate the genre.

Kennedy, like most great authors knows how to craft a story, a world, characters, and pull a reader into the story. Kennedy along with her world building and character development is what fantasy romance should be. When it comes to fantasy romance Jeffe Kennedy writing and this series has sunk it’s claws into me. There seems no possibility of rescue from their friends and family back home at House Phel, so Jadren and Selly must work together to survive… if they can. Far from home and trapped without resources, Selly has only Jadren to rely upon-the one person she can’t possibly trust.

Though he reminds himself she’s basically a child in a woman’s body, he finds it increasingly difficult to resist her artless charms and relentless curiosity.Īs their predicament goes from dire to disastrous, Jadren realizes his many failures have jeopardized Selly’s future, perhaps her very life. But Seliah is a different story and she isn’t like anyone else. When he’s stranded in the wilderness with Seliah Phel, he figures the outcome is immaterial. Relentlessly groomed into a shadow of a man by his sadistic mother, he’s the perfect spy and tool, with no real will of his own. To prove something-perhaps only to herself-she’s recklessly volunteered to stave off a host of monsters with only the enigmatically alluring, cuttingly sarcastic, and probably deceitful wizard Jadren El-Adrel for company. Everyone treats her like the child they remember. Though she has her magic and she’s been rescued from the depths of madness that consumed her since adolescence, Selly finds that the years she lost aren’t so easily recovered. Lady Seliah Phel can’t escape feeling like she’s one of those fairytale princesses awakened from a long slumber-except that her life is no romantic story and there’s no happy ending in sight. Spy, manipulator, traitor… He might be her only salvation.

Dark wizard by jeffe kennedy