A Fragile Enchantment
Niamh Ó Conchobhair is a gifted tailor whose magic — the ability to stitch emotion and memory into the clothes she makes — comes at a cost: every use of it shortens her life. Determined to secure her family's future before her time runs out, she accepts a commission to design the wedding wardrobe for Prince Kit of neighboring Avaland.
Avaland is not the fairy-tale kingdom Niamh expected. Beneath its balls and garden parties, working-class unrest is building, and Kit — cold, guarded, and reluctant to marry the bride chosen for him — is nothing like the prince from the gossip sheets. As Niamh spends her days fitting him for another woman's wedding, an unlikely friendship deepens into a romance neither of them can afford.
When an anonymous scandal columnist begins reporting on their chemistry and threatens to expose the crown's secrets unless Niamh helps her, Niamh must choose between the safety of the life she came to protect and a love story she was never supposed to have.
A Fragile Enchantment is a Regency-inspired fantasy romance about magic, class, and the price of wanting more than you're allowed.
A tailor whose magic — stitching emotion and memory into fabric — is slowly killing her; travels to Avaland to design the royal wedding wardrobe.
Prince of Avaland and the reluctant groom Niamh is hired to dress; guarded and prickly, he becomes her unlikely romance.
Princess from Castile and Kit's bride-to-be, whose wedding wardrobe Niamh is commissioned to create.
A Fragile Enchantment is a standalone fantasy romance. It isn't a sequel or companion to Allison Saft's other novels, such as A Far Wilder Magic — it's set in its own world with its own cast.
Per the author, the book includes discussions of emotional and physical abuse, colonialism, an off-page death of a parent, alcoholism, and homophobia.
