The Ashen Queen
£3.59
A Cinderella story reimagined with fire, passion, and two queens destined to rewrite their world.
Cinderella’s prison isn’t just a manor; it’s the frozen magic of her cruel stepmother, Beatrice. But beneath the ashes smolders a wild, elemental power. When a royal ball calls, Cinderella forges her own magic: a gown of twilight and slippers of moonlight, and walks to the palace on a path made by the loyal earth.
Princess Arianna, sharp and sovereign, seeks an equal, not a suitor. In the defiant, powerful woman who arrives from the night, she finds her queen. Their instant, incendiary connection defies court and convention, sparking a war with the vengeful Beatrice, who poisons the very land to destroy them.
To save the kingdom, Cinderella and Arianna must unite Cinderella’s nurturing fire with Arianna’s commanding will. Their battle is one of symbiotic love against parasitic control, a fight that will crown them as twin rulers of a new era.
“The Ashen Queen” is a complete, epic F/F fantasy romance. It’s a tale of intense passion, magical warfare, and a love so profound it heals a blighted kingdom and seeds its harmony into the stars. This is a “happily ever after” that builds a throne, founds a dynasty, and ultimately becomes the foundational truth of a universe. For fans of sapphic romance, dark fairy tale retellings, and stories where love is the most powerful magic of all.
Forget the glass slipper. This Cinderella wields the fire of rebellion and claims a Queen’s heart.
In a kingdom choked by the frost-magic of her stepmother, Lady Beatrice, Cinderella is more than a servant covered in ash. She is a vessel of a wild, ancient power—a warm, chaotic magic of the earth that Beatrice’s icy domination seeks to extinguish. Her only solace is a dangerous, forbidden attraction to her conflicted stepsister, Helena, and a blazing fantasy of the Crown Princess Arianna, a woman rumored to be as sharp, intelligent, and disinterested in men as she is beautiful.
When a royal ball is announced, Beatrice’s cruelty is a cage, but Cinderella’s spark has become a flame. With no fairy godmother, she forges her own destiny. She draws on the latent magic of her father’s land, crafting a gown of living twilight and slippers of solidified moonlight. Her journey to the palace is not in a pumpkin coach, but on a path cleared by the loyal earth itself.
Princess Arianna is bored by the simpering suitors at her brother’s ball. She rules from the shadows, a strategist yearning for an equal, not a ornament. When Cinderella arrives—a storm of raw power and defiant beauty—Arianna sees not a pauper, but a queen. Their connection is instantaneous, electric, and political dynamite. In a searing kiss on a moonlit balcony, an alliance is born that will shake the kingdom to its foundations.
But Beatrice’s wrath is a glacial fury. She unveils Cinderella’s “true” identity as a mad, thieving ward, forcing a magical confrontation that exposes Cinderella’s power to the entire court. With Arianna’s unwavering support, Cinderella shatters her stepmother’s lies, but declares open war. To save the kingdom from being twisted into a weapon of blight and ice, Cinderella and Arianna must journey into the heart of the corruption. They will face not just an army, but the land itself, perverted into monstrous Frost-Scourged. Their battle will be a test of fire against frost, of symbiotic love against parasitic control.
Victory crowns them not with one throne, but with two. As dual queens, Cinderella and Arianna forge a new kind of rule—one of symbiosis between crown and soil, structure and wildness. Their love deepens from passionate rebellion into a profound partnership, and their legacy is cemented with the birth of their daughter, Elara, a living blend of their magics and the hope of a new age.
“The Ashen Queen” is a complete, sweeping saga that redefines a classic. It is a spellbinding blend of intense, slow-burn F/F romance, epic fantasy warfare, and profound philosophical magic. Follow Cinderella’s transformation from cinder-wench to hearth-queen, Arianna’s journey from icy princess to devoted protector, and their legacy as it expands from a single healed kingdom to a gift of hope woven into the cosmos itself. This is a tale where the “happily ever after” is just the beginning of a forever that reshapes worlds.
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£3.59Add to cartLeo Sterling is London’s most discreet chauffeur, a silent witness to the secrets of the rich and powerful from behind his limousine’s partition. His rule is simple: see everything, acknowledge nothing.
That rule shatters when Alexander “Xan” Thorne, a formidable and intensely private tech billionaire, gets into his car. Their connection is immediate and electric, evolving from charged professional exchanges to a potent, forbidden attraction. Within the private sanctuary of the car and Xan’s lonely penthouse, they find a raw, passionate love that threatens the carefully constructed walls around their lives.
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The Last True Bake-Off
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Noah, a small-town artist, and Leo, a corporate lawyer escaping his gilded cage, meet by chance at a snowy Christmas market. An instant connection leads to tree lightings, cozy coffees, and a glimpse into each other’s opposite worlds: one of chaotic farmhouse love, the other of cold, polished expectations.
Drawn together by a powerful attraction and a shared longing for authenticity, they embark on a transformative journey. Leo must find the courage to choose a real life over a performative one, even if it means walking away from everything he knows. Noah must believe he is worthy of a love that promises both incredible joy and daunting challenges.
Their romance blossoms through seasons of change—a wedding that blends their families, the creation of a community art gallery, and the quiet strength needed to face a family illness. Ultimately, their love expands to include their greatest dream: building their own family through adoption.
A Family for Christmas is a sweeping, emotional MM romance about the courage to be true to yourself and the incredible family you can build when you find the person who feels like home. It’s a heartwarming story of found family, resilient love, and the everyday magic that happens when two hearts decide to build a life together, not just for the holidays, but for every day that follows.
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Review (5 Stars): A Scholarly and Sensual Triumph
“As a reader of both romance and speculative fiction, ‘The Ashen Queen’ is a rare gem that satisfies on all levels. The prose is elegant and often lyrical, especially when describing magic. The erotic tension and later intimacy between the leads is written with a fierce tenderness that is genuinely affecting, never gratuitous. From a literary perspective, the use of the Cinderella framework to explore themes of ecological responsibility (the land’s health tied to the ruler’s morality), matriarchal power structures, and the dichotomy between imposed order and emergent, nurturing growth is brilliantly done. Beatrice is a fantastic antagonist—her evil is rooted in a terrifying logic of control. The extended denouement, which follows the ripple effect of their love through eons, is a bold and successful narrative choice that elevates this from a great romance to a timeless legend. Highly recommended for readers who want substance with their steam and philosophy with their fantasy.”
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Review (5 Stars): More Than a Romance—A Foundational Myth
“Calling this a ‘lesbian Cinderella’ does it a disservice. It is that, gloriously so, with some of the most intense and well-written romantic and intimate scenes I’ve encountered. But it’s also a high-stakes political fantasy, a magical war story, and a philosophical exploration of power. The relationship between Cinderella and Arianna is the engine of the plot, but the world-building is stunning. The concept of a land’s magic responding to love or corruption was beautifully executed. The middle chapters, with their battles against the Frost-Scourged, are tense and cinematic. The latter part of the book, which follows their reign and their daughter’s legacy, is unexpectedly moving. It asks: what happens after ‘happily ever after’? The answer is a beautiful, generations-spanning journey about building a just society. The final chapters are poetic, cosmic, and left me in tears. This isn’t just a book; it feels like a new foundational myth.”
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Review (5 Stars): A Masterpiece of Reclamation and Romance
“I have never read a retelling that so completely and brilliantly owned its source material while transforming it into something entirely new and breathtaking. ‘The Ashen Queen’ is not a cute twist; it’s a profound reclamation. Cinderella’s power comes from within, from her connection to the land and her own unbreakable will. Her romance with Arianna is electric—a meeting of minds and magics that feels both destined and earned. The fantasy elements are beautifully realized; the magic system of symbiotic warmth versus domineering frost is a perfect metaphor for their love versus Beatrice’s hatred. The story doesn’t end at the ball or the wedding. It spans generations, evolving into a deep meditation on legacy, stewardship, and how true love can literally reshape a world. This book is epic in every sense: emotionally, magically, and in its scope. It’s the queer, feminist, fantasy epic I didn’t know I was waiting for.”