A ruthless heir and a woman with fire in her veins collide in a dangerous game of power, desire, and revenge. Sinful, simmering, and fairy-tale-tinged, Scarred is a dark romance that asks what we’re willing to risk to seize a crown—or a heart.
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If you loved how Sara was sent to wed the crown as part of a deadly plot—only to find herself dangerously drawn to Tristan while knives were out at court—then you’ll devour The Bridge Kingdom. Lara is trained from birth to seduce, spy, and destroy her new husband, King Aren, but her mission collides with inconvenient feelings and a web of betrayals that echo the throne-room maneuvering and double-crosses you enjoyed in Scarred.
You were hooked by Tristan’s razor-edged charm and the way Sara’s choices aren’t exactly pure. In The Shadows Between Us, Alessandra plans to court and kill a king for his throne—until attraction tangles her schemes. The push-pull between ambition and desire mirrors the way Scarred let you root for two people who don’t mind getting blood on their hands to survive.
If the visceral intensity of Scarred—from brutal power plays to passion that burns as hot as vengeance—kept you turning pages, A Heart of Blood and Ashes delivers that same ferocity. When warrior-king Maddek captures Yvenne, their enemies-to-allies bond is forged through violence, grief, and grit, echoing the way Tristan and Sara’s connection is tempered by danger and hard choices.
The way Sara falls for the one man she shouldn’t—Tristan, the king’s own brother—gives Scarred its delicious tension. In The Serpent and the Wings of Night, mortal Oraya must win a lethal tournament and forms a fraught partnership with rival vampire Raihn. The simmering attraction unfolding under constant peril will scratch the same itch for perilous romance you loved.
If Scarred gripped you with its tight focus on Sara and Tristan—two people navigating a dangerous palace where every glance could be a weapon—Gild leans into that intimate, closed-in feeling. Auren lives as the prized possession of a king within a gilded cage, and the story zeroes in on her fraught relationships and shifting loyalties inside a treacherous court.
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