The Works of G.V. Grimalt

His books are known for their elaborately embossed leather covers, and always bear an illustration of the main characters on the title page. As finely crafted as they are written, each one also includes an author portrait in the back with a mailing address for his editor in Sharlayan. Should someone desire to send him fan (or hate) mail, correspondences directed there will receive a reply from the author at his earliest convenience.

Listed in no particular order:

His Heart's Artifice
Barrett Tadova is a man of many talents. Skilled in craftmanship, combat, and aetherical arts, he's not only gifted but gorgeous to boot. However, for all his labors, his heart is absent love and his bed is colder than an unlit forge. When a mysterious woman appears in Barrett's shop, he can't resist the urge to aid her in what, at first pass, seems to be an easy job. The job, like the lady, turns out to be anything but easy and Master Tadova's adventures in getting paid and laid take him across Eorzea and into exotic lands.
The cover page illustration for this features a handsome, tanned Hyur man with brown hair and no shirt (but wearing a hat) holding a scantily clad woman in one arm, and wielding a gunblade with his free hand. Each copy also includes a business card for Byregot's Ward, owned by a Garrett Sadova. Hmm.Guided By the Star
Two childhood friends navigate closing the distance that time and adulthood built between them. Aviene left home in search of glory, and Almant remained due to a sense of duty. As the years go on and the tension builds between them, can they overcome obstacles outside of their control to find some measure of resolution? Each chapter begins with an exchange of letters between the pair, and special volumes come with replicas of said letters reportedly handwritten by the author himself.Love Grows On
When Astra, a botanist grown bored of only the company of plants, ventures into the local pub she didn't expect the seeds of adventure to sprout. Y'mhadi is new in town and recently hired on by the tavernkeep to tend bar. When a threat from Y'mhadi's past comes to town thirsty for her blood, Astra must find out if she's ready to wield more than her garden shears in defense of her home and the miqo'te whose taken root in her heart.A Heart Once Frozen
Lord Malaux Nerine has always had the best of everything in his life. Clothes, food, education, whatever he desires is his. But he can't help but feel bored by it. Longing for excitement outside his manor walls, he slips away the moon before his arranged wedding to have one final chance at adventure. Along the way he finds himself questioning his own upbringing—and his betrothal—as he grows closer and closer to the leader of the mercenary band he signed up with.Staged Passions
Imogen has always wished to grace the finest stages of Radz-at-Han. But given that she spends most of her days tending her family's apothecary shop, the only steps she performs are those to make a proper potion. When Zeqi comes into the shop one day looking for something to ease their muscles sore from dancing, Imogen manages to set aside her shy nature and blurt out a request for a lesson. Amused, Zeqi agrees. As Imogen grows in skill, she struggles to juggle duty to her family and her growing passion for dance—and her instructor.In Pursuit
Torgan, a bounty hunter with a strict moral code finds themselves questioning it as they work what was to be their final job. Hired by a lord most ruthless, the more they learn of their target the less they believe in the legality of not only the bounty, but their contract with the lord. And when they meet their mark, everything they ever knew about the world and themselves changes.Heart's Song
The life of a bard has always appealed to Darling Sage. She has plenty of opportunities to wander and see the world, and plenty of chances to meet a variety of its denizens. During one of her travels, she meets the widower of one of her former adventuring companions. Intending to visit only briefly, she finds herself questioning whether her wanderlust was actually just a way to run from the guilt of losing a friend. Guilt only magnified as Darling Sage starts to fall in love with her dead friend's husband.Married to a Mammet
When Adelaide's quirky Aunt Emelia dies, she's set to inherit the entirety of the elderly woman's estate. However, that inheritance comes at a price: Adelaide must be wed by year's end. A recluse of a goldsmith, Adelaide has never been one for romantic endeavors and her Aunt Emelia was full well aware of that. With the end of the year only three moons away, how can Adelaide find love when she can barely find her way out of the workshop? After a series of mishaps, Adelaide decides that mortal men aren't worth her time. And so, as an expert mammeteer, she'll simply make a fake partner to meet Aunt Emelia's terms! Will her mammet fool her aunt's executor? Or will Adelaide prove to be as hopeless at crafting a partner as she is casual conversation? And what will happen when her creation takes on his own personality?To Serve His Imperial Radiance
Godric is a spy for the Eorzean Alliance. Always professional and always one to get the job done, there's no other choice when the leaders of the Alliance come up with plan to end the war with Garlemald: assassinate Varis zos Galvus. Tasked with infiltrating the Imperial Palace, Godric finds himself a fast favorite of the emperor. A favorite that's shown liberties the rest of the Garlemald would surely question. But when Varis' guard is down, Godric finds him doing what he's never done before: hesitating. Is it a matter of finding the right time to find Varis on his blade? Or has the intimacy between them cut deeper than the spy realized?

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