Midsummer Melody

By Lark Westerly

Roderick is a courtfolk man and Melody is a pixie miss. When they meet at the Midsummer Ball, Roderick’s peaceful future goes right out the window. What can he do with a girl who reacts to a court bow with a passionate pixie smooch? Whatever the answer, he can’t possibly do it in the ballroom!

• Language: English
• Publisher: eXtasy Books Inc
• Release date: Jul 31, 2018
• ISBN: 9781487417918

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A Midsummer Ball... and a fairy in the bed.

Roderick is a courtfolk man and Melody is a pixie miss. When they meet at the Midsummer Ball, Roderick’s peaceful future goes right out the window. What can he do with a girl who reacts to a court bow with a passionate pixie smooch? Whatever the answer, he can’t possibly do it in the ballroom!

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Midsummer Melody

Copyright © 2018 Lark Westerly

ISBN: 978-1-4874-1791-8

Cover art by Angela Waters

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Midsummer Melody

A Fairy in the Bed

By

Lark Westerly

Dedication

For everyone who’s danced at a Midsummer Ball—or who wishes they could

Author Notes

This story takes place over there (the fay homeland) in the late 1960s.

Chapter One: Fifteen Minutes to Midnight

Skipton Manor, Midsummer’s Eve, 1969. 11:45 p.m.

... erdale, Babette said.

What?

Roderick tried to focus. Babette had clearly been introducing him to a young woman dressed in yellow, and he’d been so wound up with the willy-tingler and looking about for Maggie that he’d heard only the last two syllables of the introduction.

It wouldn’t matter if he was at a dance over there where the humans lived their casual tech-laden lives. He’d just say, Eh? or Sorry?

Over here at the Midsummer Court Ball, hosted by his parents at their manor, inattention was a gaping breach of etiquette. His mother would be mortified if she knew.

He stared