Manners For A Wild Mage

A court-trained mage with untamed power must master etiquette to survive court intrigue—until the man sworn to guard her becomes the only person who refuses to tame her. Love, rules, and wild magic collide inside a gilded palace.
Anwen was raised to make magic look polite. In a palace where every smile is a strategy and every "proper" phrase carries hidden weight, she has spent years learning how to hold her power behind silk gloves and perfect posture. But when a covert court faction turns etiquette into a weapon and tries to trap her voice inside a dangerous, repeating ritual, Anwen discovers the truth no one warned her about. In the royal court, the most elegant lessons can be the most controlling.

Caius is assigned to guard her through the shifting politics, the quiet sabotage, and the subtle games that thrive on obedience. He is everything the court respects: steady, disciplined, and impossible to rattle. He is also the one man who refuses to treat Anwen's "wild" magic as a problem to solve. Instead of demanding calm, he offers something rarer in a world built on performance. He asks. He waits. He lets her choose.

As intrigue tightens around them, Anwen must untangle a trap designed to turn consent into a script and love into leverage. The palace wants her contained. Her enemies want her predictable. Even her own instincts begin to feel uncertain as imitation and manipulation press in from all sides. But Anwen is done paying for peace with her boundaries. To survive, she'll have to risk the very thing the court has always tried to steal: her living, present truth.

Manners For A Wild Mage is a clean, closed-door romantasy filled with royal court tension, slow-burn devotion, and a consent-forward romance where love isn't obedience and power doesn't require surrender.