The Shadow Crown: A Forced-Bond Enemies-to-Lovers Romantasy

She swore to kill him. The blood oath had other plans.

Rhia Vane has spent six years as a ghost the last surviving assassin of a guild burned to ash by order of the crown, hunting down the men who deserve it while she waits for her chance at the one who doesn't. Prince Kaelen Draven. The man who stood silent while her family died.

She gets her chance. It isn't the one she wanted.

Captured and bound by an ancient blood oath, Rhia is chained literally, magically to protect the very prince she's dreamed of killing. If he dies, she dies with him. Every wound he takes, she feels as her own. And now they're forced onto a lethal, Cross continent journey together, hunted by an enemy who wants them both dead before they reach the one place that can expose the truth.

Kaelen is cold, lethal, and carrying a guilt he's never spoken aloud. Rhia is done trusting anyone wearing a crown. But somewhere between the ambushes, the shared tent, and the secrets neither of them wanted to survive long enough to learn, hatred starts turning into something far more dangerous.

Because the closer they get to the truth of who really destroyed her guild, the closer Rhia comes to discovering exactly what and who she's still willing to burn the world down to protect.

A slow burn, forced proximity romantasy with a morally gray hero, a blade sharp heroine, and a bond neither of them chose — but neither of them can survive without.

Book One of the Night flame Chronicles.