Dai is trying to work past his hatred for the Roman General and trying to get used to being a man again. Dai had spent most of his almost 2,000 years in the shadowlands learning magic in an attempt to break the druid’s spell.

He only escaped the life of a slave when he was cursed to the shadowlands. Dai was a prince kept as a slave in the house of a cruel General.

Dai was taken as a teenager from his father’s lands by the Romans to ensure that his people would not rebel against Rome. This story mainly focuses on Dai and his trying to adjust to returning to being a man in the fixed realm. The daughter Brigit was cute but underused as a character. Unlike several other stories that featured widows who mourned their husbands until the hero shows up in town and suddenly they toss off their grief and try to jump the hero, Amanda’s realization that she has stopped living her life was a gradual reawakening and she had to work hard to move past her fears and guilt of moving on without the husband she barely knew. Once she meets Dai, he starts to re-awaken desires, both physically and a desire to move on with her life. Amanda is too focused on her daughter Brigit, who is slowly suffocating from chronic asthma, to realize that her life is passing her by. Although her daughter is now seven, she has never worked past the trauma of watching her newlywed husband drown trying to save another surfer. This story is a bit dark since the lives of both Dai and Amanda are both filled with trauma and they stumble a bit trying to overcome their pasts and their fears.Īmanda is the sister in law of Eliza, and Eliza’s brother Matt was killed shortly after he and Amanda were married, and which was shortly after she found out she was pregnant. Kiss of the Goblin Prince tells the story of Dai, the Celtic prince of the Decangli. They were cursed to live in the shadowlands, slowly losing their soul to the greed for gold which would turn them into goblins. The curse was put on the brothers by a druid priest almost 2,000 years ago. In Book #1, Goblin King, due to the love of Eliza, Roan, the Goblin King, was finally able to break the spell which doomed Roan and his brother, Dai, to live in the shadowlands. But could she possibly place her trust in the kiss of a goblin prince? Then he meets Amanda, a single mother with a sick daughter whom he feels compelled to protect.

But now he’s free of the goblin curse, and some would say he knows too much-he can make nature bend to his will, influence the minds of others, and command magic. Trapped for centuries in the bleak Shadowlands, Dai clings to his humanity with a thirst for knowledge. ORDER A COPY: Kiss of the Goblin Prince: Shadowlands series

The Goblin King by Shona Husk