Jude Delmar can read every emotion in a room. It's her magic: tidal, instinctive, always on. And it's the reason her family sent her to the Season, the most-watched bonding event in the realm, where ten heirs are paired on a remote island while every moment is broadcast through scrying mirrors.

She arrived with a plan. Read the room. Make the right alliance. Protect her family's position. Get out.

She did not plan on Leo Lucente.

Leo is the golden heir of the most powerful family in the realm, and the one person on the island her magic can't reach. Every time she pushes past his surface, something shuts her out. She can feel the wall between them thinning, straining, almost giving way. Never what's behind it.

Her bracelet lights up for him anyway.

As the Season's ceremonies turn ruthless, Jude starts seeing what the realm doesn't: an event everyone believes is sacred is being gamed from the inside. But the island's own magic has always been honest. And it's starting to push back.

Now Jude has to choose between the alliance her family needs and the connection she never wanted. Knowing the most powerful family in the realm will do anything to stop her.

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Perfect for readers who love:

- One shared bedroom. Five beds. No walls.

- "I can read everyone except him"

- Matchmaking magic that can't be faked

- Forced proximity with nowhere to hide

- He falls first, and he falls hard

- Slow burn with a payoff

- Found family

The Golden Isle is a standalone romantasy with a happily ever after. Contains explicit sexual content. Intended for readers 18+.