Meet the Main Characters from my Swoony New Adult Romantasy Novel, To Sway a Flame

Adelaide (A Common Thief)

Forced to become a thief by the powerful Master of Thieves, Adelaide has spent the last four years dreaming of the day her debt to Mistress Scrabs has been paid off. It’s a wonder she hasn’t been caught yet, having stolen from some of the kingdom’s most prominent nobles and cultural institutions. But somehow no one has made the connection between the green-eyed thief’s appearance and disappearance from these burglarized places. And if they did suspect her, no one was able to give an accurate description of Adelaide. Maybe Mistress Scrabs was right. Maybe she was unremarkable, a fantastic trait for a thief—and an attribute that Adelaide loathed.

It’s not easy being trusted, and that’s exactly the source of Archduke Gavin Hughes’s exhaustion. Actually looking forward to growing old and feeble, Gavin’s reputation as a fire and light magic wielder has branded him as the “White Hawk of Kordouva”—a title he can’t seem to live down since banishing the fiemons (shadow demons that can only be banished by…well, light or fire) back to the Penumbral Realm.

Sharp-jawed and blessed with ice-blue eyes, Gavin can’t refuse marriage proposals fast enough. What sort of life would it be to marry without love or even affection and then be constantly called away on some urgent errand that apparently holds the fate of Kordouva in the balance. Gavin has a quiet nature though most people are intimidated by his reputation. Earned on the battlefield and for his efforts to help stabilize the country after Penumbra’s War left Kordouva sovereign-less, Gavin’s reputation really doesn’t match who he is as a person (though he’s more than content to let people believe the rumors because they leave him alone). Talk about a total recluse.