A Court of Blood and Flames

Lady Nalia was raised to be a baron’s perfect daughter—gentle, graceful, and ready to be wed off like a polished gem. On her eighteenth birthday, she is to be gifted to a stranger in a marriage meant to secure her father’s ambitions. She expects boredom. Obedience. Misery. While sharp-tongued, Nalia is beautiful and radiant, a true prize to any man, but to her surprise, Talen, an ex-soldier from a monster-hunting militia, rejects her.

Her pride could never. She challenges him to a duel to prove her worth, a plan that backfires immediately. Torn, she tries to forget about him, understanding she is to never see him again, but in an unforeseeable disaster, her city is attacked by infernals. The court falls, her family dies, and her precious Verleise crumbles into ashes. But Nalia finds herself saved by the same man who had so quickly rejected her….

Now hunted and alone with a man built of shadows, scars, and secrets, Nalia must navigate a fractured realm plagued by both political enemies and real monsters; both monsters in plain sight—vampires, ghouls, and revenants—and the ones hidden in the Shadowlands, the Black Krypt Coven. As she seeks revenge on the ones who orchestrated the massacre, Nalia begins to shed the layers of the life she lost, replaced with one she never knew she needed. Trust, trials of love and sacrifice, and a chance to unravel the desires of her new man, the baroness faces challenges of her new budding romance, but Nalia must first learn how to cope with her own turmoil before she risks burning everything to the ground.