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Check out this stunning cover for The King's Maiden by Elle Parker! This debut novel and the first in the Camelot Court series is coming January 23rd!
Cover Designer: @simplydefinedart
Other Credits: @blossominginkedits (editor), @hayden_locke_author (formatting)
Blurb:
The King’s Maiden
Twenty-five thousand dollars to let some entitled, rich guy boss me around for a month?
Sign. Me. Up.
Most days, I did that for free and called it being female. But it turns out the rumors circulating campus are true. A secret society wants to pay me for their privilege.
Life has thrown me nothing but lemons since I lost my father. Crippling student loans. Unpaid medical bills. Overdue rent. Enter The Quest, the solution to all my problems.
To win it, I have to become a Maiden,
Navigate a snake pit of secrets and betrayal,
And fight to resist temptation, all for the chance at a fresh start.
Submitting to D’Arthur University’s brotherhood of Knights won’t be an easy feat. Camelot Court’s most notorious members will test my honor and my limits. But to the victor goes the spoils…
And The Quest is one game I can’t afford to lose.
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The King’s Maiden is first in a planned four-book series and will end on a cliffhanger. The series will conclude with resolution and some variation of happiness for the characters. This is a Why Choose romance, which means the FMC will end up with more than one love interest. Swords may cross, if tensions rise high enough before the end of the series. It is a story about Knights, after all.
About the Author:
Elle Parker is not a fan of writing about herself and has recently learned she hates doing so more in third person. She would much rather be writing about her FMCs and the characters who love them.
Elle’s characters are flawed, tiny pieces of her soul. She loves giving each of them a space within the pages of a book. Her stories often involve unpacking trauma, finding their voices, and reclaiming the freest, truest versions of themselves. Because Elle’s writing journey has been very much the same in her own life, and she is really excited to share it with you.
In her free time, she enjoys reading voraciously, mothering imperfectly, and getting through the chaos of life anxiously. But above all, she loves writing, reading, and talking about books with her best friends—the ones she met on the Internet while writing Roswell fanfiction before anyone told her about stranger danger.
In June of 2023, Elle began writing again after a long period away. The same day, her grandfather fell into a coma. During the twenty-three days he was on life support, she wrote and finished her first full length novel, completing it on the day he passed away. While processing grief and giving voice to pain that had been long-repressed, she found she had a lot of stories inside her.
These stories vary in genre, subgenres, and tropes, because she couldn’t pick just one that felt right. But luckily, 2023 was also the year Elle Parker learned she didn’t always have to choose.
Author Links:
@whychooseparkerbooks (facebook, instagram, tiktok, threads)
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