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 also available in three special editions: the Sun Edition, the Midnight Edition, and the Once Upon a Curse Edition. The complete story is identical across all versions.
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 illustrated cover and illustrated sprayed edges.
I hope you enjoy stepping into this story as much as I loved dreaming it into existence.
Cara Ravelli