Urban fantasy with mysteries and magic.

I liked how the FMC, Iris, was a bit older. She was smart and accomplished, working at Harvard as an art history professor.

The concept was interesting, with Iris trying to discover the secrets of an old, magical family heirloom that somehow connected her to an unknown, mysterious man.

The crystals were an interesting idea and I would love to learn more about them.

Overall, I have mixed feelings about this book. I personally liked the beginning and the ending of the book, but felt like there were some unnecessary, slower parts in the middle that almost made me DNF the book. Art is an interesting subject, but the excessive details about art pulled me out of the story.

Also, the marketing as wicked and spicy romantasy, which they seem to have changed after I signed up to read the book (my copy still says “A Wicked Spicy Romantasy Series” on the cover) unfortunately did the book a disservice. From the marketing, I was personally expecting a completely different style of book. This felt more like a slow burn, contemporary romance with some mysterious and magical elements mixed with cowboy romance (cowboy meets city girl) and maybe one or two spicy scenes, definitely not “wicked and spicy”.

Thank you, R&R Book Tours & author Blair M. Shadows for the ARC. Receiving ARC didn’t affect my opinion of the book.