A thief was never supposed to survive the serpent prince's touch.Talia Veyne only meant to steal the Crown of Ashur and disappear back into the lower city before anyone noticed. But when Prince Zavian Ardent catches her inside the forbidden temple, everything changes.Zavian is cursed.Every bride chosen for him has died.His blood carries an ancient serpent god, his wrist has been chained since childhood, and his kingdom fears him as much as it needs him....

The Song Inside the Hunterby Jess RaeShe was the siren born without a song.Hidden away in a sea-cliff convent, Nerys Saltmere has spent her life believing she is broken. A silent shame among sirens. A girl with no power, no voice, and no place in the world.Then a monster-hunter washes ashore beneath the black reef.Bastian Rook should be her enemy. He was trained to kill sirens, scarred by the Order, and made into a we...

She stole a ring from a dead king.Then her blood woke him.Nerra Vale only meant to save her little sister. One desperate theft in Morhallow's royal crypt should have bought her time, coin, and a way out of the city that had never shown her mercy.Instead, she awakens Lucien Ashgrave—the murdered Bone King, chained in his tomb for a century and bound to her by an ancient vow neither of them chose.Now the queen wants Nerra's blood.The dead whisper her n...

The Phoenix Crownby Jess RaeShe was raised to believe she had no power.No spirit.No value.No future.For twenty-three years, Vessa Marrowen was the shame of her noble house—a daughter without a celestial bond in a kingdom where magic decides worth.Then the forbidden black phoenix chooses her.The same phoenix once bonded to Torren Blackvale, the dead traitor prince accused of murdering a queen and burning the palac...

She was chosen to burn.She chose to become the fire's refusal.Nerra Wren has survived Velrath's alleys by stealing what she needs and trusting no one. But when forbidden fire marks her as the next Ash Bride, the crown comes to claim her for an ancient rite no bride has ever survived.Cairos Vale, the king's feared and heartless commander, should be the man who drags her to the altar.Instead, he offers her a choice.Run ...

The Crownless Vowby Jess RaeA crown chose her.She chose to break it.Rivenna Veyne was never meant to sit on a throne. She was a servant, hidden in plain sight, until the living crown of Eldermoor rejected a prince and crossed the throne room floor to claim her instead.But the crown is not a blessing.It is a lock.Beneath Eldermoor sleeps an ancient hunger, and for generations, marked women have been sac...

A Tide of Stars and Ruinby Jess RaeA cursed lighthouse.A sea full of drowned stars.A love powerful enough to break every vow.When Nerissa Vale inherits Blackglass Lighthouse, she expects debt, ruin, and family secrets. What she finds beneath the cliffs is far worse: Cael Orison, an immortal star-keeper chained for three hundred years because of a betrayal written in her bloodline.Every night, another star falls into the sea.

The Moonless Brideby Jess RaeSoraya Wren was born without a shadow.For ten years, she believed that made her cursed.Then the king came looking for her.In a kingdom where shadows can be stolen, brides can be turned into keys, and vows made in fear can bind the living and the dead, Soraya discovers the truth her mother died trying to hide: her missing shadow was never gone.It was hidden inside the most dangerous...

A cursed prince. A forbidden flame. A vow that was never meant to become love.Elara Veyne was supposed to burn.Marked as a witch and condemned by the Holy Court, she is saved by the last man she should trust: Prince Thorne Ravaryn, the feared shadow heir of a dying kingdom. His curse is devouring Ravaryn from beneath its black throne, and Elara's hidden flame blood may be the only thing powerful enough to break it.But the old magic demands a heart.

A Starless Vowby Jess RaeThe stars are dying.And the dead have named Calista Marrow the murderer of a king.A lowborn grave-singer with a gift she never asked for, Calista has spent her life singing souls into the afterlife. But when a corpse rises during a noble funeral and whispers her name, she is thrown into a kingdom of vanishing stars, ancient vows, and royal lies.Sent to capture her is Rhaeden Voss, commander of...

The Unbound Witchby Jess RaeIn a kingdom where every heart is marked by a glowing love-thread, Nimara Voss was born with nothing.No thread.No fate.No promise that anyone in the world was meant for her.Feared as the threadless witch, Nimara has spent her life alone in the marsh, selling dangerous charms to desperate people and pretending loneliness is safer than hope. Then Commander Caedren Vale arrives at her ...

She was supposed to be a bride.Instead, she became the forest's revenge.On the morning Mina Hart is meant to marry a prince, she is accused of treason, dragged from the palace in her wedding gown, and abandoned in the old forest to die.But the forest does not kill betrayed women.It crowns them.When antlers grow from Mina's skull and the roots begin answering her rage, she discovers the kingdom has been feeding women to the forest for generations—brid...