The Vowbreaker's Crown

She was sent to break his crown. She never meant to choose him. Mara Ellion has spent her life breaking the empire's most dangerous oaths-and paying for every severed promise in blood and borrowed memory. Her latest command is impossible: marry King Lucen Vale, gain access to the vow binding him to his crown, and destroy it before winter. Lucen knows his new bride was sent as a weapon. He also knows his starving kingdom cannot refuse the grain and prisoners tied to their treaty. But as corrupted vows spread across the borderlands, their carefully negotiated marriage ignites into a dangerous attraction neither of them can dismiss. Together, Mara and Lucen uncover a conspiracy embedded in the laws holding both nations together. To save their people, they must decide which promises deserve to survive, which must be broken-and whether love can remain freely chosen when magic makes every word binding. A darkly sensual fantasy romance of dangerous vows, political intrigue, forbidden desire, and hard-won freedom.