Love’s Flame: a Romantasy Short Story &

** WINNER of the Christlit Book Award 2025! **Love, like a fire, can burn you, or ignite you. Sometimes, it’s both.1 Corinthians 13; 4-7 tells us: “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy. It is not self-seeking, and it not easily angered. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.”Fenix is a high-born fae who will one day rule over Ellewood as its High Lord. In the interim, a war looms beyond their realm. Fenix’s powers are unmatched, and he is the key to defeating the darkness.Coraline knew better than to fall in love with him. She knew one day her status as a lesser fae would tear them apart, but her heart was traitorous. On their last night before Fenix leaves for battle, Cora makes a decision that alters everything.Three years later, the war ends, but celebration is short-lived, as the current High Lord of Ellewood has fallen ill. All assume Fenix will return to Ellewood and take his father’s place on the throne, but when he comes upon a little inn on the way—one which his comrades have praised for giving them hope during wartime and which holds a sense of familiarity and comfort that he immediately recognizes as hers—Fenix puts his travels on hold.Can love transcend time? Will Fenix and Cora find a way back to each other, or will the old laws of class keep them apart forever?