the Fall of Crown: A Dark Romantasy War-Bound Soulmates Romance: 3

The Crown demanded her sacrifice. Now she is coming for everything it stole. Thalinna is no longer the Crown's weapon. She is a sovereign commander, a powerful magic-bearer, and the leader of five hundred soldiers condemned for choosing freedom. Beside her stands Roderick Graves, the former Iron General who abandoned his commission, his country, and his legend for the woman bound to his soul. Together, they destroyed the Aether-well and exposed the Crown's plan to sacrifice Thalinna through the Conduit Protocol. Now every soldier who followed them faces execution. Hunted through the hostile borderlands, the Iron Company races toward Blackspire while its commanders slowly break. Cracks spread through Thalinna's Aether-glass arm with every use of her magic. Silver rot consumes Roderick from within, stealing his strength even as the Crown closes in. Then High Commander Bloodstone offers them one final mercy. The Iron Company will be spared if Thalinna surrenders and preserves the laws that made magic-bearers property. Thalinna would give her life for her soldiers. Roderick would destroy what remains of himself before allowing the Crown to claim her again. But their devotion has become the perfect weapon to use against them, and victory will mean nothing if one of them does not survive it. To end the Claiming Laws and save the people who entrusted them with their lives, Thalinna and Roderick must reject the one lesson war taught them both. They are not expendable. The Crown expects a martyr. Instead, it will face two war-bound soulmates who have finally found something more dangerous than a cause worth dying for. A future worth living for. The Fall of the Crown is the explosive conclusion to *The Edge of War*, a dark romantasy trilogy featuring war-bound soulmates, touch-her-and-die devotion, equal partners in rebellion, permanent magical scars, love versus command, and a hard-won happily ever after.