A Kiss for a Crown

Secrets of Venatus Book One

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Faking an engagement with the heir to the throne is the least of your problems when you're accused of murder.

She kidnaps him. Fake engagement, high-conflict, slower burn romance, modern magical world with political intrigue. Crescent City meets Jade City.

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The Price of a Crown

Issa didn’t plan on candid photos of her exploits reaching her father. Now she must salvage her failing grades or return to court as the reluctant Heir to the
throne of Venatus.

With her reputation preceding her, and finding a tutor is impossible Issa strikes a deal with Emendare Rose in return for a favor.

Issa navigates prejudice, political expectations, and the perils of fame while stretching the limits of what she can achieve in half a semester. Together, she and Rose must challenge Venatus’s rigid social structures and embrace their unlikely alliance or lose this window of freedom and a foothold in the kingdom’s
political game.

The Price of a Crown, a prequel to the Secrets of Venatus Series, is an enemies-to-friends story set at a modern university. Fun banter and the power of friendship abound in this magical world with unexpected mythical creatures.

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Faking an engagement with the heir to the throne is the least of your problems when you're accused of murder.

Issa has never had to earn anything. The crown, the court’s respect, her father’s protection—everything was hers by birth, and she spent years gambling it away while the realm quietly rotted around her.

So when the Ministero forces her hand, demanding she marry or lose the throne, Issa does what she does best: make a terrible plan with absolute confidence. She kidnaps Hale, a mortal museum curator who has accidentally stumbled into ancient magic, sprouted wings, and become the kind of problem powerful people would rather bury than explain. Then she presents him to the court as her future consort.

Hale isn’t cooperating. He wants his old life back, not a fake engagement, a betrothal mark on his hand, and a front-row seat to political disaster. But with enemies closing in, magical creatures reemerging, and something deadly shifting beneath the modern world, staying near Issa may be the only thing keeping him alive.

As court intrigue turns ruthless and their forced alliance burns into something far more dangerous, Issa and Hale must decide who they can trust: the corrupt powers tearing their world apart, or each other.

Because falling in love might be the one thing that saves them—if it doesn’t destroy them first.

A Kiss for a Crown is a propulsive contemporary fantasy featuring a fake engagement, enemies-to-lovers tension, dual points of view, and a flawed heir forced to become the leader her realm needs.

Every bargain has teeth, every glance is a risk, and falling for the enemy could cost them everything.

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Mackenzie is a fantasy romance author. She loves her romance with mystery, political intrigue and magic. When Mackenzie isn’t writing, she spends her time hiking on her favorite trails and photographing plants and insects. She lives in Utah with her husband, two sons, and their mischievous dog. To receive updates on Mackenzie's progress on her current writing projects or pictures of her most recent adventures, subscribe to her newsletter.