King's Gold

Martha Bexley is the daughter of a master goldsmith, heir to a workshop she cannot legally own. James Castle is her father's senior journeyman, newly elevated to Master... but without the capital to buy a shop or the raw gold for a royal commission. Together, they are a perfect equation. Separately, they are ruined. The contract marriage is one of cold logic: shared profits, separate beds, and a clear boundary between the forge and the bedchamber.
For four weeks, the arrangement works. They work the anvil, beat the gold, and keep the Guild inspector at bay. Then a historic heatwave traps them in the workshop, stripped of their usual professional armour. When a jar of gold dust spills, the only way to recover the King's weight is to remove their clothes, and every boundary they have carefully maintained. The King's Gold is a slow-burn historical erotic novella about two artisans who discover that the heat of the forge is nothing compared to the heat between them.
Expect explicit consent, meticulous period detail, and a love story forged in gold and sealed in sweat. Includes: Neurodivergent-friendly sensory grounding, explicit verbal and non-verbal consent, forced proximity, competent heroine, villainous Guild inspector, cathedral gilding, and an earned epilogue. For readers who believe competence is the most attractive quality of all. Approx. 25, 940 words