Steamy Holidays 3
Waldren Junker Lintham is the fifth son of a nobleman, an accomplished lover, and quite possibly the last man you'd trust with an empire.
Unfortunately, the Regent Council disagrees.
With five powerful families fighting over the vacant throne and Valentine's Day fast approaching, Waldren must uncover the rightful heir before ambition turns deadly.
His unlikely assistant? Valentinia, a painfully proper librarian whose innocence proves more unsettling than any seductive courtier.
Between dangerous nobles, tempting distractions, and a young woman who refuses to be charmed, Waldren may finally discover something worth risking everything for.
You decide then and there that you will let nothing happen to Valentinia of Benlis, Imperial Librarian. Admiring, wide open eyes look into yours. Warm, soft, hungry lips find yours. Then they stop. Valentinia recoils and jumps up.
“Oh… I didn’t mean… Please forgive me, Junker Lintham.”
“No need. It was nothing…”
“How can you be so heartless!”
“Heartless? I think I just forgave you…”
“How can a kiss be nothing to you?”
“You just said you didn’t mean to kiss me.”
“I know what I said. I didn’t mean to kiss you. But you said it didn’t mean anything. That is completely different.”
“So, the kiss did mean something? To you? To me?”
“Why must you be so insufferable? You are always playing your nobility games with me.”
“Alright. Let’s go back to the beginning. Did you mean to kiss me?”
“No, I most certainly did not. What do you take me for?”
READ MORE“Did the kiss mean something to you?”
“Of course! How can you even ask!”
“Well, what did it mean?”
“What do kisses usually mean, Junker Lintham?”
“That you like me?”
Valentinia stamps her foot.
“Not anymore!”
COLLAPSELily Chen on Goodreads wrote:⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Valentine Empress has a foreign—by which I mean sexy—ambassador whispering in a language you don’t understand while your pants mysteriously go missing. Waldren Junker Lintham is a fifth son with no prospects, tasked with saving the empire. Add a deadly court full of secret heirs, steamy blackmail, forbidden romance, scheming noblewomen, a librarian who blushes like a schoolgirl, and that ambassador. J. Tiffany Noore builds a fantasy-history world that breathes, tempts, and conspires. And, of course, there are very steamy encounters.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A womanizing fifth son of a Duke. J. Tiffany Noore then tells us they had to invent a noble title for him and they picked ‘Junker’. So, when he’s asked to find out who the rightful heir of this medieval empire is, prepare to be immersed in courtly intrigue, secret and not-so-secret steamy encounters and blood magic. Five powerful families compete for the throne and some will stop at nothing to get it. Then, Noore introduces a shy librarian, a sexy foreign ambassador, and a tortured hermit. One of Waldren’s lovers isn’t ready to tie the knot because that would make her a junkress or a junkfrau, which she doesn’t want at all. How does Noore come up with this? The Valentine Empress is a full-hearted romance where honor, passion, and loyalty collide.
Characters in this story:
Valentinia of Benlis from The Valentine Empress! Ambassador Lumnije Juhász from The Valentine Empress!
Valentinia of Benlis
Lumnije Juhász
