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Haunted by The King – Once Upon a Curse Edition

There was no one else.
There was only ever you.

Caroline Blake came to Versailles looking for a ghost story.
She found the Sun King.

For more than three centuries, Louis XIV has been bound to the palace he once ruled, trapped by a curse that allows him only seven nights each year in the flesh. History remembers him as the Sun King. Caroline knows him as Léo Laurent: arrogant, commanding, infuriatingly certain of himself, and devastatingly alive after dark.

But when daylight returns, so does the curse.
Caroline should walk away. Instead, she starts asking questions.

Why do the mirrors remember him? Why does Versailles seem to respond to his presence? And why did the curse react to Caroline the moment she stepped inside the palace?

As she uncovers a secret history buried beneath three centuries of legend, Versailles begins to wake around them. Old magic stirs beneath the gilded halls, and the woman who cursed Louis begins to seem far less dead than history claims.

Seven nights are all they have. Seven nights to uncover what happened to the king Versailles lost. Seven nights to discover why Caroline was never merely a visitor. Breaking the curse could finally set Louis free… or bind Caroline to it forever.

Haunted by the King is a spicy historical romantasy filled with forbidden desire, haunted mirrors, royal secrets, dangerous magic, and a cursed king who discovers that the most dangerous thing waiting for him at Versailles may not be the witch who destroyed him, but the woman who makes him want to live again.

Haunted by the King is available in three editions: the Sun Edition, the Midnight Edition, and the Once Upon a Curse Edition. The complete story is identical across all three editions.

The Sun and Midnight editions offer two different visual moods, while the Once Upon a Curse Edition is a special print-only romantasy edition featuring an exclusive cover and illustrated sprayed edges.

I hope you enjoy stepping into this story as much as I loved dreaming it into existence.
Cara Ravelli

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Description

The Sun King’s Rules

All eyes on me.
If you dare look away, you will beg me to look back.
Obedience is ceremony.
Every bow, every breath, every word is service. Perform it perfectly or be dismissed.
My favor is your oxygen.
When I grant it, you shine. When I withdraw it, you suffocate.
Desire is mine to command.
I decide when you burn, when you wait, when you fall apart.
Exile is punishment.
To be sent from my presence is worse than pain. You exist because I see you.
Mirrors never lie.
In my halls, you will watch yourself surrender. Again. And again.
Submission is beauty.
You are never more divine than when you are undone for me.
The Sun does not beg.
But I will make you beg on your knees, in your silks, in your sin.

Caroline Blake came to Versailles looking for a ghost story.
She found the Sun King.

For more than three centuries, Louis XIV has been bound to the palace he once ruled, trapped by a curse that grants him only seven nights each year in the flesh. History remembers him as the Sun King. Caroline knows him as Léo Laurent: arrogant, commanding, infuriatingly certain of himself, and devastatingly alive after dark. But when daylight returns, so does the curse.

Caroline should walk away. Instead, she starts asking questions. Why do the mirrors remember him? Why does Versailles seem to answer his presence? And why did the curse react to Caroline the moment she stepped inside the palace? As she uncovers a secret history buried beneath three centuries of legend, the palace begins to wake around them, old magic stirs, and the woman who cursed Louis begins to feel far less dead than history claims.

Seven nights are all they have. Seven nights to uncover what happened to the king Versailles lost, and why Caroline was never merely a visitor. Breaking the curse could finally set Louis free, or make Caroline part of it forever.

Haunted by the King is a spicy historical romantasy of forbidden desire, haunted mirrors, royal secrets, dangerous magic, and a cursed king who discovers that the most dangerous thing waiting for him in Versailles may not be the witch who destroyed him, but the woman who makes him want to live again.