Genre:
Fantasy Romance
Themes:
Age Gap
Butch / Femme
Coming Out
First Love
Historical
Interracial / Multicultural Relationship
Magic
Opposites Attract
Self-Discovery
Supernatural Elements
Toaster Oven / Gay For You
Heat Level:
Medium (sex scenes are included and may use mildly graphic description)
Archetypes:
Celebrity / Socialite / Model
Escort / Courtesan / Sex worker
Flapper
Geographic Location:
United Kingdom: England
Setting:
Big City / Urban
Historical
Park / Zoo / Garden
Party
Sexual / Gender Identity:
Lesbian
Queer
Femme
Questioning
Protagonist Identity:
South Asian
Of Socialites and Prizefights
The Flos Magicae Series, Book 4
By Arden Powell
She needs a woman's kiss to break her curse.
When Deepa Patel rejects the wrong man, he curses her: every night, she will transform into a wild animal until her curse is broken by true love’s kiss. The problem is twofold. One: Deepa needs her nights to seduce shallow men into spending money on her—money she desperately needs to buy herself and her mother a better life. Two: she doesn’t believe in love. She’s never met a man she wanted to keep longer than a week, never mind forever.
She never considered her true love might be a woman.
Roz is unlike any of Deepa’s past suitors. She’s working class, with a nose that’s been broken at least once, courtesy of an underground boxing club. And she makes Deepa feel lighter and softer than she ever thought possible. But Roz can’t afford to give Deepa the life of luxury she craves.
Meanwhile, Deepa is posing as a wealthy nobleman’s fiancée. There’s no love between them, but his lifestyle is everything she’s ever wanted. Caught between a real relationship and a loveless fake one, Deepa has to choose: give up on her dreams for a chance at true love, or make her dreams come true but stay cursed forever.
Of Socialites and Prizefights is a butch/femme sapphic novel in the Flos Magicae series, a collection of queer romances set in an alternate 1920s world with magic. All the stories are standalones and can be read in any order.