Thrice Cursed (Infernal Bargains #1)

Elliana Theron has a secret. Okay, a metric ton of them, starting with the fact that she’s the middle sister in a set of triplets who shouldn’t exist. Half fae, half daemon, her parents are royalty from two warring factions who abdicated their thrones for the sake of their family. Life as a dae in hiding was hard enough, but her brother Will just had to go and break a jealous witch’s black heart. Certain another woman was to blame for the split, the witch mistook her sister Tess for Will’s latest conquest and cursed Tess and Will into their wylde fae forms of a doe and buck forever.

As if losing her siblings wasn’t bad enough, Elle has gained the responsibility of raising Tess’s daughter…with the man she once loved. The man who took one look at Tess and knew she, not Elle, was his true mate. The man who cost Elle her happily ever after, and her belief that they exist.

The only way to make ends meet while Elle discovers a way to break the curse is to work as a maid at the Marshal Building, the address of choice for Louisville’s most rich and powerful supernaturals. But when the illusive penthouse client, Sebastian Hill, puts in an unexpected appearance and flies into a lustful frenzy after catching her scent, Elle realizes her job may bring more unwanted and dangerous attention than it’s worth. And that’s before he informs her that she’s his mate.

To make matters worse, the same night she meets Sebastian—and walks out on his crazy, if also annoyingly sexy, ass—there’s another man waiting for her in the wilds outside her home. Well, man is a stretch. Ronan is a daemon with a claw on the pulse of the supernatural underground. Including a possible cure for the Therons’ curse. But what he names as payment, the thorn ring Sebastian never removes from his finger, will throw her right back into her “mate’s” arms. The plan would be risky if he were any ancient fae. As luck would have it, Sebastian is the Green Man, master of Underhill, the uncrowned ruler of the fae due to Elle’s father’s defection.

If he discovers her identity, that Elle and her siblings are direct inheritors, he’ll see them as a threat to his throne. And, well, threats are easily dispatched. Still, she’ll do anything to save her family. Even if it means playing the despised mate card. While cozying up to Sebastian is bad enough, it’s the bargain she makes with Ronan that leaves her feeling like she’s made a deal with the devil himself.