Ariana “Ari” Geiker lives an isolated life on an imperial space station commanded by her father. The skilled, young botanist rarely leaves her living quarters, where she maintains an elaborate garden. When an imperious older woman is captured from a pirate ship and given to her as a slave, Ariana’s perfectly ordered life is thrown into chaos. Her nameless slave is watchful, intelligent, dangerous, and sexy, and seems to know an awful lot about tactics, star charts, and the dread, marauding pirate queen, Mir. What happens when the slave also reveals an expertise in seduction to her innocent mistress? The Lily and the Crown is a lesbian romance about daring to risk your heart with someone you shouldn’t. 87,000 words
Author
Roslyn Sinclair was born in the southern USA, but she’s now enjoying the Northeast and its beautiful fall weather—not so much the colder winters! She loves to travel and has gotten writing inspiration everywhere from Kansas City to Beijing. Roslyn began her writing career in fanfiction under the pen name Telanu. Since then, she’s been lucky enough to transition into professional publishing. Some of her favorite and most well-known themes are age-gap romance, ice queens, and characters who fight their attraction to each other tooth and nail—until they can’t anymore. You can sign up for her newsletter and receive a FREE steamy sapphic novella: bit.ly/3VbiLke Roslyn lives with her wife and a cat who, while old and cantankerous, is nevertheless a very good boy.
