A Deal with the Elf King – Kova Elise (2020)

This standalone fantasy romance follows a human girl who is forced to marry the Elf King. The elves come for two things: war and wives, and in both cases they bring death. Three thousand years ago, humans were hunted by powerful races wielding wild magic until a treaty was formed. For centuries since, the elves have taken a young woman from Luella’s village to become their Human Queen. The townsfolk see being chosen as a mark of death, and nineteen-year-old Luella is grateful to have escaped that fate as a child. Instead, she has devoted her life to studying herbology and becoming the town’s only healer, until the Elf King unexpectedly arrives for her. Everything Luella thought she knew about her life and herself is revealed as a lie. Taken to a land filled with wild magic, she is forced to become queen to a cold yet intensely handsome Elf King. There she discovers a dying world that only she can save. The magical land of Midscape pulls at one corner of her heart, while her home and its people tug at another, but what truly threatens to break her is a passion she never wanted. Inspired by the tales of Hades and Persephone and Beauty and the Beast, the novel is a complete standalone story with a happily ever after ending, suited to fantasy romance readers seeking a slow-burn romance and a swoon-worthy couple.