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Court of Sacrifice And Curses
Paperback
Series: Ruined Realm of Shadow Romantasy Trilogy, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 13 2026
Pages: 390
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.87 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Tainted was whispered when I was born. It's a death sentence no one argues with.
But someone chose to let me live. They didn't know the forbidden magic running through my low-born blood.
Four years ago, I fled the realm with an illicit spell and a shattered heart. Beyond the veil, I built a life out of nothing. A job mending broken books. A child I would die to protect.
Then my dying birth father was added to my family tree. One visit. In and out. No one would ever know I was there.
I was wrong. Prince Nixk knew.
In a kingdom ruled by bloodline, a royal heir is never safe, and that makes my son a target. If I leave again, I go alone. If I stay, the castle becomes my cage and the royal court my keeper.
He calls it protection. The worst part: he's right.
Nixk is more formidable than I remember. More obsessed with making me his. And beneath the resentment, the part of me that remembers his tenderness and used to feel we had a bond agrees. Even knowing that if he ever learns what I truly am, death would be a kindness.
Court of Sacrifice and Curses is the first book in the Ruined Realm of Shadow trilogy, told in dual POV. A dark, open-door romantasy with a morally grey prince who has wanted her since childhood, a low-born heroine the realm tried to kill at birth, and a betrayal that detonates on the final page. Book one ends on a cliffhanger.
One-click Court of Sacrifice and Curses because love was never meant to be painless.
For readers of Court of Winter, To Bleed a Crystal Bloom, and A Court This Cruel and Lovely.
Tropes you'll love: Forced Proximity - Morally Grey Prince - Touch Her and Die - Secret Heir - Slow Burn - Fated Mates - Single Mother
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