Melissa A. I. Murray

Back in May 2025, I had a random dream about a love triangle between a princess, a widowed prince, and the mysterious and handsome nanny looking after the prince's children. I told a few friends about it, and they encouraged me to turn that random dream into a book. A few months later...I have a completed first draft (109k words) and am already working on my first round of edits & rewrites. Stay tuned for more! In the meantime, I have some teasers I'll be adding to the site under the Books section to tide you over. I want to go the traditional publishing route for this one, so it might take a while to get the book in your hands.

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This one is a genre switch for me, as I'm going from fantasy adventure novels to, well, Romantasy. aka, faerie smut. However, I focus a lot on the world-building, and it's mostly politics and war and science...but not how we would think of it. I wanted to set this in a world that wasn't vaguely-medieval-Europe-but-with-faeries, so I dug around and did some speculative history, asking the question: What if Turkic-Iranic nomads invaded all of Western + Northern Europe and just...stayed there? And that's how the world-building began. 

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The heroine is Aylin Aga, the 27-year old youngest daughter of the khan of Gecekara, recently returned home after spending nine years studying everything from history and philosophy to chemistry and medicines at prestigious universities in the Kutsal Caliphate, where the sole commandment is that curiosity is sacred. Even as a university trained Chemist, Aylin must still do her duty to her khan...by accepting an engagement to her estranged childhood sweetheart, Ender Volkan, who is now the widowed khan of the neighboring Kurtkara, with three young sons in need of a new tutor. While Ender is busy ruling his khanate, Aylin gets to know his boys...and their caretaker, the mysterious foreigner Kian Seery. Shenanigans ensue, and she must choose: stay and marry Ender, or run away with Kian.