The Blackwood Bargain
The rain began at the precise moment the solicitor's door closed behind her. A thin, determined drizzle that darkened the shoulders of Elara Vance's coat and slicked the cobbleston
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angsty books
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The Apology Clause
Mara Rourke walks into Vance Associates expecting nothing but the reading of a will, and walks out the heir to a billion-dollar publishing empire she's been told her entire life is
Vows Written in Venom
Elara Vance has hidden the serpent mark on her wrist since childhood, the living proof of a bloodline bound by vow to the Wraith-King, an ancient horror waiting beneath the ash for
The Cassandra Protocol
A frantic 4:47 a.m. call pulls journalist Cassandra Reeve to a bloodstained pier along the Hudson River, where the body of Victor Hale lies waiting. He is the first of two victims,
The Thornbound Crown
Silver-black vines devour Mireholt's coastline, rotting the cliffs and silencing the foghorns one by one. Apprentice herbalist Elara Veyne tends her dying mentor, Master Orin, in a
A Crown of Hollow Stars
In the archive-city of Ashenmere, Master Tobin has spent forty years guarding a single secret: the location of a Hollow Star, an ancient relic whose broken light once crowned emper
Bound by the Shadow Mark
A single lantern swings above the iron gates of Thornhaven Academy as Elara Voss arrives carrying a secret she cannot name , a shadow mark that burns beneath her skin and marks her
The Thornbound King
Aldric Vane bears the debt-mark of a traitor on his cheek, and he has spent years sharpening his hatred into a blade fine enough to cut down the man who put it there. But when a dy
A Crown of Thorns and Vow
The Thornwood Compact was a mistake from the first stroke of the quill. When the Ashborne Crown's armies press against his borders, Lord Vryne signs a desperate treaty with an anci
The Salt and the Silence
When Ava Castellan inherits a crumbling house on the salt-scoured cliffs of Marrow Cove, she expects grief, damp walls, and perhaps a quick sale. Instead she finds a village that g
Rust on the Chrome
The sodium lights at Caldwell Motorplex flicker on at 4:47 a.m., three minutes before the timer should kill the overnight circuit. Maren Holloway sees it from the access road and f
The Hollowing Season
When Maren Calloway arrives at the decaying farmhouse on Hollow Creek Road, the hearse is already gone and no one has thought to wait for her. The town has closed ranks around her
The Cartographer of Ash and Bone
The rain arrives in Thornbury sideways and smelling of the marsh, finding every gap in Edmund Halloran's coat as he climbs the worn stone steps of the Mercantile Exchange. He has c
We Build Our Own Weather
Marcus Webb counts the bags before he allows himself to feel anything. Two. Only two. That's everything a twelve-year-old boy owns in the world when he steps onto the cracked porch
Thorns of the Eternal
Snow falls in slow curtains across the Thornwood's edge, and Elara Venn is running out of time. Her sister Mara is fading, her spirit claimed by the ancient, hungry forest that has
Thorns of the Hollow Court
The iron gates of Blackthorn Manor groan open for Rowan Ashworth, pulling him back to an estate he swore never to return to, and into the shadowed dominion of Lord Cassian Thorne a
The Thornbound Vow
Smoke curls from a pyre on the salt-stained Ravenmere pier, and Eleyna Vant watches her mother's body burn with a letter still clenched in the dead woman's fingers. The letter spea
The Crown We Forgot
Coraline Ashworth crosses the grey Channel in her dead brother's regimentals, carrying nothing but a bundle of letters from a queen she never knew and the desperate hope of learnin
Where the River Bends Back
Maren Delaney hasn't set foot in Hartwell since the funeral. Eight years ago she buried her mother, climbed into her battered pickup, and drove away from the river town that had sh
A Throne of Thorns
Cordelia Ashworth is one candlelit hand away from losing everything her grandmother spent a lifetime building, and the smiling devil across the card table, Lord Marcus Sterling, kn
The Weight of Almost
Evelyn Marsh has built a careful life in her Seattle studio, morning coffee, rain against the window, distance from everything she almost had. Then the invitation arrives, and the
The Cartographer of Hollow Vows
A bell tolls beneath Ashworth Manor for a name Elara Voss was never meant to inherit. When the cartographer arrives with a folio of architectural surveys and a commission from an a