Chai and Charmcraft (The Charmcraft Chronicles, #1)

What's a prince to do when the man of his dreams doesn't want a crown and his cat-familiar is banned from the palace?

His Imperial Highness Faraj al-Nadhir has never thought himself a charming sort of prince. He's shy, round, middle-aged, and always dutiful. But he has also secretly spent years dreaming of a man tending jasmine in a star-lit window — prophetic visions that led him at last to one blissful night with someone who sees his heart, not his crown.

He did not expect to wake up with a...