The Silver Moon Curse

Lady Hildegarde of Astermere has two years to choose a husband—or lose the right to choose at all.

Fleeing a future being negotiated over tea and titles, Hilde rides into Blackbriar Forest and follows the ring of a hammer to Foxglove Forge. There she finds Bertolt Vane: a blacksmith with rough manners, dangerous hands, and no patience for noble rank.

He is everything the court would call unsuitable. He is also the first man to look at Hilde and see a person instead of a prize.
But Blackbriar keeps its own secrets, the moon keeps witness, and Bertolt is bound to a curse that makes wanting him as dangerous as trusting him. As pressure from court closes in and the forest turns ever more perilous, Hilde must decide whether duty will shape the rest of her life—or whether she is willing to risk everything for a man the world was never meant to give her.

A slow-burn romantic fantasy full of sharp banter, forbidden attraction, dark woods, and moonlit danger.