Lady of the Lion: A Dark Romantasy Faerie Queene

Her wedding ended in dragonfire. Her new life began in blood.When a warlord and his dragon descend upon Caer Melyn, Una watches her family slaughtered, her home seized, and the women of her household dragged away as captives. She escapes by throwing herself from a tower into the freezing moat below-with nothing but a ruined wedding dress and one unbreakable purpose.She will come back for them.To reach her warrior brother, Una bargains with Sir Wulfgar of the Red Cross, a scarred mercenary knight with a brutal reputation and no interest in playing the hero. He agrees to escort her through the lawless borderlands, but his price is as dangerous as the road itself.Wulfgar expects a sheltered noblewoman. Instead, he finds a strategist who reads danger before it strikes, turns men's appetites against them, and is far more attracted to his violence than either of them should admit.But witches, false refuges, and ancient magic are moving them toward a trap. When Wulfgar abandons Una rather than face what she has come to mean to him, their enemies close in. Soon the knight who promised to protect her is imprisoned inside her stolen home-and Una must use the spell meant to control her to lead an army back through its gates.To reclaim Caer Melyn, she will face a dragon, a sadistic warlord, and the man who broke their bargain.Lady of the Lion is a dark, high-heat medieval romantasy featuring a ruthless mercenary hero, a cunning warrior heroine, dragon battles, captivity and rescue, seductive magic, vengeance, and a hard-won happily ever after. Inspired by Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene.