Icy Betrayals: A Historical Fantasy Forced Marriage Romance: The Elemental Web Chronicles Series, Book Five
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Lady Angela Tagert is no one’s pawn. A brilliant pharmacological botanist, she carries a secret within her skin—a living, photosynthetic tattoo. When her scheming brother sells her to the highest bidder, she makes a bold escape. A hasty marriage to a handsome stranger headed to Iceland may be far from ideal, but it buys her freedom.
Valtýr Árnason—airship captain, engineer, huldufólk—didn’t plan to return home with a wife. Smart, stubborn and beautiful, she’s a storm he never saw coming. But when a troll attacks her en route, he realizes just how deep he’s in. Past mistakes he’s kept carefully hidden are back to haunt them both.
Hunted by a villain determined to unlock the mystery of skin-bound magic, Angela and Val must unearth the truth behind a lost tradition—before it’s stolen, corrupted, and used to shatter more than kingdoms.
Enjoy this story by historical fantasy romance author Anne Renwick where you'll unravel mysteries and defy conventions in a world where danger lurks around every corner.
Icy Betrayals is a steampunk-infused gaslamp fantasy romance where botanical science and ancient magic collide. When a botanist marked by living ink runs away with an Icelandic airship captain, their search for the truth behind a lost tattoo tradition draws deadly attention—and threatens far more than their hearts. Perfect for readers who enjoy Gail Carriger, Bec McMaster, Jacquelyn Benson and Mary Robinette Kowal.
The fifth story in the Elemental Web, Icy Betrayals can be enjoyed as a standalone and delivers a steamy romance with a guaranteed happily ever after—where love is as dangerous and irresistible as living magic etched in skin.
ELEMENTAL WEB CHRONICLES: The Golden Spider, The Silver Skull, The Iron Fin, Venomous Secrets, Icy Betrayals
ELEMENTAL WEB TALES: A Trace of Copper, In Pursuit of Dragons, A Reflection of Shadows, A Snowflake at Midnight, A Ghost in Amber, A Whisper of Bone, Flight of the Scarab
ELEMENTAL WEB STORIES: The Tin Rose, Kraken and Canals, Rust and Steam, Black Sand and Blood
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About the author
ANNE RENWICK holds a Ph.D. in biology and greatly enjoyed tormenting the overburdened undergraduates who were her students, fiction has always been her first love. Today, she writes steampunk romance, placing a new kind of biotech in the hands of mad scientists, proper young ladies and determined villains.
Anne brings an unusual perspective to steampunk. A number of years spent locked inside the bowels of a biological research facility left her permanently altered. In her steampunk world, the Victorian fascination with all things anatomical led to a number of alarming biotechnological advances. Ones that the enemies of Britain would dearly love to possess.
