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Crown of Thorned Vows: A Dark Fae Court Romance
Paperback
Series: The Fallen Court, Book 1
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 432
Weight: 1.27
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Lira Ashwood has spent eleven years building a life from the rubble of everything General Kael Thornguard took from her. Her parents. Her house. Her name. Now she works as a healer in the slums outside the fae court that destroyed her family - keeping her head down, her resources thin, and her hatred of the man who commanded the war that killed her parents carefully, precisely maintained.
Until the Rot comes for her brother.
The spreading magical corruption has no cure she can reach alone. No resources, no political access, no mechanism to stop what is coming. The only entity with the reach to help is the Winter Court. The only person with the authority to act is Kael Thornguard himself.
He needs something too.
A political marriage - oath-bound, magically enforced, absolutely binding under the Founding Compact's ancient terms - to hold a fracturing alliance together before civil war tears the courts apart. Her bloodline, disgraced as it is, is the only one that satisfies the treaty clause.
The bargain: marry him, and he commits the Winter Court's full resources to saving her brother and lifting the Rot from her district.
She accepts. Not because she has forgiven him. Not because she trusts him. Because her brother is dying and the options ran out.
What follows is not what she expected.
The court she enters is a battlefield of noble houses, political knives, and enemies who see her as either a puppet or a threat. The man she married is not the monster she built from memory - he is something more complicated and considerably more dangerous to her carefully constructed hatred. And the Rot spreading through the land is not a natural disaster.
It is a weapon. Deliberately made. And someone in the Winter Court put it there.
As Lira navigates the intrigue of the Winter Court, uncovers the conspiracy behind the war that killed her parents, and finds herself working alongside the man she swore she would never stop hating - she begins to understand that the oath binding them is not only a chain.
It is the only thing in the court that cannot lie to her.
Crown of Thorned Vows is a slow-burn dark fae romance with:
- Oath-bound magic that prevents deception - and makes emotional honesty unavoidable
- A heroine with a profession, a spine, and a precisely maintained capacity for cold fury
- A morally complex love interest carrying eleven years of guilt and trying to repair what he helped destroy - in secret, without asking for credit
- Court intrigue, political marriages, noble house rivalries, and an ancient conspiracy
- Forced proximity that earns every moment of tension
- A slow burn that takes its time and means every step of it
- A satisfying romantic resolution with a series hook that sets up Book Two
For readers of dark fae court romance who want real political stakes alongside the slow burn. The hatred is earned. The softening is earned. The love, when it arrives, is the most honest thing in a court built on beautiful lies.
Content Advisory: Crown of Thorned Vows contains mature romantic content, depictions of grief and loss, political violence, and morally complex situations without easy resolution. Intended for adult readers 18+.
The Fallen Court Trilogy:
Book One: Crown of Thorned Vows
Book Two: The Court of Shattered Seasons (forthcoming)
Book Three: A Kingdom of Chosen Crowns (forthcoming)
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