Welcome to Selwas, where love and magic reign supreme—and the King too, but he’s just doing his job.

King Ehmet Hethtar is tired. He’s only been regent for a year, but his overstepping great-uncle is vying for the crown, and his overbearing mother insists he take a wife immediately. Unwilling to capitulate on both fronts, Ehmet chooses one, promising the dowager queen he’ll start looking for a suitable bride—after the Symposium of Prodigious Minds. It’s the sole event on his calendar he actually wants to attend, and he won’t have it ruined by duty. 

Lady Hevva Tilevir loves people, enjoys her duties, and grew bored of propriety long ago. A countess in her own right, destined to inherit her father’s dukedom, she is roped into attending an academic symposium as chaperone to her younger brother. Hevva decides she might as well use the not-too-terrible opportunity to search for a common man—someone she can make her husband and elevate from mediocrity to aristocracy, someone without much baggage.

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Hijinks ensue in this Regency-inspired fantasy tale where everyone, literally everyone, has magic. THE RELUCTANT QUEEN is the first installment in the Fear & Focus duology.