Entranced (Prince of the Doomed City, #1)

by Sylvia Mercedes

“We lost one that day. One of the librarians, I mean. A good man, Soran Silveri. He’d been with the Prince for nearly three hundred years.”

Soran! My heart!!

Lawrence is looking at me. Did he see how I blushed when I practically sat in the unconscious Prince’s lap? When I glance his way, he offers the same bland smile. But something sparkles in his eye.

Lumiere vibes

I’m Mixael Silveri, junior librarian of Vespre Library.

So they had a child!

As she does so, something gives out a rattling bray, and I see what looks like a small blue dragon unfolding itself from beneath her chair. It lifts its head, hissing and showing a forked red tongue.

He's still alive too!!

“The librarians are among the most valued and celebrated denizens of the city, second only to the Prince himself.

Come, Darling!

Desperately waiting for the moment this shifts from a nickname of annoyance to an endearment.

I latch hold of his courage like a shield against my own calamitous fear.

Doom is warded off. For one more day at least. And I was part of that. A small part, perhaps, but still . . .