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Shadowbound: An Enemies To Lovers Fated Mates Fantasy Romance.
Paperback
Series: The Nightbound Pact, Book 1
Publisher: Emily B. Carter
Published: Aug 8 2026
Pages: 318
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.71 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
She was sorting plums when the mark burned into her palm.
Wren Sorrelle is the only healer within four villages. None of that matters to the fae riders who take her out of the market square before sundown and carry her across the Veil, to a court where the sun never rises and a two hundred year old pact demands that the king claim the mate the bond has named.
Then the King of the Nightbound Court looks her in the eye, in front of four hundred people, and refuses her.
He will not say why. He will not send her home. And as the blight eats his southern border and a nine year old boy dies of a debt he never owed, Wren begins to understand that the cold, controlled man who humiliated her is paying a price she cannot see, for a reason he would rather die than name.
Nine mortal brides have crossed that Veil in a hundred and thirty years. Four went home. Five did not.
Wren is the tenth. And she is the first one who has ever asked why.
SHADOWBOUND is a slow burn enemies to lovers fantasy romance with a fated mates bond, a court that keeps its receipts, and a heroine whose hands turn out to be the most dangerous thing in the kingdom.
Open door romance. Full happily ever after. Book one of The Nightbound Pact.
Contains grief, the death of a child, and depictions of historical violence against women.
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