Fiorenzo

A fantasy-of-manners romance featuring swordplay, hurt/comfort, and a happily-ever-after.

Fiore has a plan. Find a wealthy elderly gentleman, delight him until the end of his days, and retire on the resulting inheritance. It’s the best outcome a low-born courtesan in the city of Halcyon can hope for.

And it seems a perfect scheme… until a mysterious masked man upends it.

Banished from university after a disastrous duel, Enzo wanders the city searching for scraps of the affection he’s lost. His public mask conceals private agonies. A single night in the company of a courtesan, however, balms his wounded heart, and he finds himself returning again and again to Fiore, revealing more of himself than he’s ever dared before.

Furthermore, and more astonishing still, Fiore finds he returns Enzo’s affections.

But while Fiore wears no mask, he nonetheless has secrets of his own. And when the ghosts of their pasts return to haunt them, only the bond of trust between them will carry them through.

Enough hurt/comfort to satisfy a petty, tyrannical child king who does nothing all day long but beat upon a great oak table with fork and knife in his fists, demanding more hurt/comfort.

goodreads review

Wish-fulfillment for when you’re tired of your day job and just want to be left with no choice but to yield yourself utterly to the devoted care of a 10 ft tall, wealthy, enormously powerful (physically and politically), completely selfless, aristocratic boyfriend.

goodreads review

Ideal for the discerning reader who enjoys seeing a beautiful young man meticulously broken down into individual lego bricks (those with a taste for the medical side of things in particular!)

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