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
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Angsty Fantasy books
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Angsty Fantasy on the shelf
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
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 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