Court of Fiends by Tamsin Hawthorn

"Why have you come here?" Cecily Leighton has lost everyone she ever loved. Awash with grief and destitute, she arrives in London at the home of her uncle, the eccentric Baron of Hyssop. She has but a single Season in Town to find a suitable husband. If she fails, she faces an uncertain future as a burden to the estranged family who took her in. But the beau monde is wary of a young lady with too-knowing eyes and questionable background, no matter how lovely. "I was... curious." Julius Darkwood is gentry only by virtue of his vast fortune. Universally mistrusted and with a reputation for incivility, he rarely turns up in the gilded mansions of London’s elite. But his rescue of a woman of rare magical talent from certain death has him skulking through the assembly rooms, trying to secure an introduction to Lord Hyssop’s orphaned niece. "What was that creature in the wood?" Read more