Twenty-five years of balancing ledgers and holding a kingdom together taught Princess Rosaleigh Ivymoore exactly one lesson: be useful, stay quiet, and never take up more space than you're given.
Then her parents sell her.
To settle Everspring's debts, Rosaleigh is shipped across the sea to marry Paxton Bellroar — the Dragon King, the patricide, the man whose name makes courtiers lower their voices. She arrives expecting a monster. She finds a king who remembers her plants, protects her household, and looks at her like she is the only thing in the room.
She also finds a pull she cannot explain.
Paxton knows precisely what it is. Fated mates. And he isn't the only one who feels it — because the assassin sent to kill Rosaleigh the night before her wedding takes one look at her sleeping face and lowers his blade.
Now Rosaleigh has a crown she never wanted, a court that wants her gone, a husband keeping a secret, and a shadow-eyed killer who refuses to stay in his cell. Somewhere between the three of them, she might finally learn the thing her grandmother spent a lifetime trying to teach her:
You do not have to earn the right to be loved.
Adult romantasy. Book One of the Heart of Uldara.
Explicit content, 18+. Fated mates · why-choose · marking and mating · dominance and submission · political intrigue.
Twenty-five years of balancing ledgers and holding a kingdom together taught Princess Rosaleigh Ivymoore exactly one lesson: be useful, stay quiet, and never take up more space than you're given.
Then her parents sell her.
To settle Everspring's debts, Rosaleigh is shipped across the sea to marry Paxton Bellroar — the Dragon King, the patricide, the man whose name makes courtiers lower their voices. She arrives expecting a monster. She finds a king who remembers her plants, protects her household, and looks at her like she is the only thing in the room.
She also finds a pull she cannot explain.
Paxton knows precisely what it is. Fated mates. And he isn't the only one who feels it — because the assassin sent to kill Rosaleigh the night before her wedding takes one look at her sleeping face and lowers his blade.
Now Rosaleigh has a crown she never wanted, a court that wants her gone, a husband keeping a secret, and a shadow-eyed killer who refuses to stay in his cell. Somewhere between the three of them, she might finally learn the thing her grandmother spent a lifetime trying to teach her:
You do not have to earn the right to be loved.
Adult romantasy. Book One of the Heart of Uldara.
Explicit content, 18+. Fated mates · why-choose · marking and mating · dominance and submission · political intrigue.