Title: A Touch of Prophecy
Author: Lyssa Lund
Date: 2023
Publisher: Lyssa Lund
Quote: "[T]he screen...showed a blonde woman in her late thirties or early forties."
Just the right age for the bachelor king of the Seelie Court of Fayden, the version of the English faerie world used in this series of novels and novelettes. If you can sustain disbelief beyond this point you'll probably get into this faerie romance. Alaia, the aging blonde, is the child named in the prophecy to which the title refers. When grown up that child, brought up mortal, will return to Fayden, reclaim her Fae powers, and fight a psychic battle beside the Seelie King. They will, of course, fall in love, in a tasteful way, with liberal mention of body parts that can be mentioned in live conversation, though read too much of that kind of tasteful love scenes and see what shows up on your computer, ick. So, if you're into this kind of book, buy the printed edition.
Apart from Alaia's being a middle-aged woman, with children who are told she's abandoned them and moved to Australia, instead of the usual barely-of-legal-age maiden, this novel adheres to the canon and is fit to be called a modern Faerie tale. I'd prefer an original plot twist to the unoriginal addition of romance; you may prefer the romance.
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