Genre: gaslamp cosy fantasy romance
Blurb
The Lord of Stariel is dead. Long live the Lord of Stariel. Whoever that is.
Everyone knows who the magical estate will choose for its next ruler. Or do they?
Will it be the lord’s eldest son, who he despised?
His favourite nephew, with the strongest magical land-sense?
His scandalous daughter, who ran away from home years ago to study illusion?
Hetta knows it won’t be her, and she’s glad of it. Returning home for her father’s funeral, all Hetta has to do is survive the family drama and avoid entanglements with irritatingly attractive local men until the Choosing. Then she can leave.
But whoever Stariel chooses will have bigger problems than eccentric relatives to deal with. Winged, beautifully deadly problems. For the first time in centuries, the fae are returning to the Mortal Realm, and only the Lord of Stariel can keep the estate safe.
The Lord of Stariel is the first book in the Stariel quartet, a romantic cozy fantasy series about fae, magical estates, and complicated families.
Mini-Blurb
Everyone knows which family member the magical estate will choose as its new ruler. Or do they? But whoever Stariel chooses will have bigger problems than eccentric relatives to deal with. For the first time in centuries, the fae are returning to the Mortal Realm, and only the Lord of Stariel can keep the estate safe.
Tropes
- Sentient land
- Cinnamon roll hero
- No-nonsense FMC
- Friends-to-lovers
- Fae prince / royalty
- Secret identity
- Magic estate that chooses its own ruler
- Crumbling manor house
- Eccentric family
- Inheritance drama
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Other Stariel Books
The Lord of Stariel is book one of a four-book series that tell the story of the magical estate of Stariel that chooses its own ruler. The four books follow the same same m/f couple.
- Stariel 1: The Lord of Stariel
- Stariel 2: The Prince of Secrets
- Stariel 3: The Court of Mortals
- Stariel 4: The King of Faerie
The fifth Stariel book, A Rake of His Own, is a spinoff featuring an m/m couple.
AJ Lancaster 