Welcome to our special Pride Month spotlight, where we’ll be featuring multiple spotlights of LGBTQ+ books from LGBTQ+ authors throughout Pride month this June! These spotlights are to showcase the incredible talent of self-published authors. Want to take part in a spotlight? Then get in touch!
Please welcome Arden Powell and The Bachelor’s Valet, the first in the Flos Magicae series featuring a wide range of queer characters and romance:
Alphonse Hollyhock is blessed with wealth, class, and more beauty than brains. Though he hasn’t got a lick of wit or magic to his name, he’s perfectly content living life as an airheaded bachelor with his valet—the clever, unflappable Jacobi—by his side to ensure everything runs smoothly. All he lacks, according to his mother, is a wife.
Despite Alphonse’s protests, he’s to marry Aaliyah Kaddour: a bright, headstrong young woman who would probably be charming company if she didn’t threaten everything about Alphonse’s way of life. Marrying means giving up his fashionable flat, his fast car, and, worst of all, it means losing Jacobi.
Perhaps most distressingly, this talk of marriage is bringing all sorts of confusing feelings to the forefront. Because rather than falling for the beautiful girl being pushed into his arms, Alphonse seems to be falling for his valet. Except a man can’t fall in love with another man. Can he?
Meanwhile, Aaliyah has plans of her own. She’s as devious as she is pretty, but if Alphonse wants to get through this marriage business in one piece, he’ll have to trust her. Her and Jacobi, and, most dangerously, his own feelings.
The Bachelor’s Valet is a novel in the Flos Magicae series, a collection of queer romances set in an alternate 1920s universe with magic. All the stories are standalones and can be read in any order.
If you’re looking for an adorable couple and charming romance, then you’ll fall in love with The Bachelor’s Valet! A delightful story for those who ever watched Jeeves and Wooster and wanted more.
And if you crave more charming queer romance, you’re in luck! To celebrate Pride month and the recent release for Of Socialites and Prizefights, more wonderful books in the Flos Magicae are currently on sale between June 14-20 across the US and UK Amazon store. Check them out:
About the Author
Arden Powell is a Canadian SFFH author and illustrator. A nebulous entity, they live with a senior rescue hound and an exorbitant number of houseplants, and have conversations with both. They write across multiple speculative fiction genres, and everything they write is queer.
- Author Website: ardenpowell.mailerpage.io
- Bluesky: @ardenpowell.bsky.social
