How Not to Court Your Human Captive

She's his prisoner. He's her only way out. Neither of them planned on wanting more.

When Mara finds herself snatched from her ordinary life and dragged into a world of ancient magic and arrogant, infuriatingly beautiful creatures, survival is her only priority. Her captor — cold, calculating, and entirely too pleased with himself — expects compliance. What he gets is a woman who argues back, refuses to be impressed, and somehow dismantles five centuries of carefully constructed superiority without even trying.

He has rules for this. A protocol. Captives do not challenge him. They certainly do not make him laugh.

And yet.

What begins as a battle of wills — sharp words traded across candlelit dinners, stolen glances that neither will acknowledge — slowly becomes something neither of them has a name for. He's learning that power means nothing if she won't grant it willingly. She's learning that the enemy who keeps her locked away might be the only one in this strange world who truly sees her.

The problem with captivity isn't the locked doors or the impossible magic. It's realizing the person holding the key has somehow become the one thing worth staying for.

*How Not to Court Your Human Captive* is a wickedly funny, achingly tender fantasy romance for anyone who's ever rooted for the complicated villain — especially when he's falling apart for all the right reasons.