The Golden Doe's Song

Lily — the last golden doe of the wildwood, a creature whose song can raise forests and whose heart was never meant to be owned — is seduced out of her soul by the first man she ever loved, shattered off the high platform when her broken heart kills her magic, and caged in a gilded glasshouse at the heart of Aurelia, the circus where every wonder has a price and every soul a shelf. But the penniless bodyguard hired to keep her captive wakes something the ringmaster swore a broken doe could never do again: real, helpless, impossible love — for the one man honest enough to refuse the devil's contract, desperate enough to sign it for her, and beast enough to tear down every cage between them.