Pleasure Trader

I am his salvation.

He paid my weight in gold. By the customs of the lawless city of Ashgate, I now belong to Timur, a pleasure trader.

Except that Timur is no ordinary fae. He’s turning into something that will kill him possibly even before the transformation is complete. He’s determined to protect me for as long as he lives, but neither of us knows how long that will be.

In this city of crime and death, I’m powerless on my own, but I have something they all want—my joy, which makes every dweller of Ashgate try to steal me.

As Timur’s time is running out, we devise a plan to secure my future for when he’s inevitably gone. But as we grow closer, any future without Timur starts to feel to me as terrible as death.
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Pleasure Trader is a contemporary fantasy romance between a shadow fae and a human (MF) set in Marina Simcoe's world of the River of Mists.

Each book of the Joyless Kingdom trilogy contains a complete love story of a separate couple with a connecting story line across the three books.
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Books in the world of the River of Mists in the order of publication:

Cursed in Glass Duet, coming 2026

Joyless Kingdom Triloogy
Somber Prince, book 1
Joy Guardian, book 2
Pleasure Trader, book 3

Wingless Crow Duet
Fire in Stone Duet
Serpent's Touch Duet

Madame Tan's Freakshow Trilogy:
Call of Water, book 1
Madness of the, book 2
Moon Power of Rage, book 3

All duets and trilogies in the River of Mists can be read independently.