Queen of Poison & Fire
Artura is a healer. Her home is in the grips of war. A war on the very thing she values most: her freedom.
Accused of witchcraft and treason against Cimran and the wicked king who rules the land, Artura and Emrys, the man who loved and raised her as his own, are forcibly taken from their home. At the hands of The Cleanse, an elite group of soldiers tasked with eradicating magic from the kingdom, the pair are handed over to King Helmar and locked away beneath the mountain range bordering the city.
Artura has one goal: Do not break. No matter what happens.
Tortured and taunted for months, when Artura is then one day handed over in marriage to a neighbouring king, it feels like this is yet another twisted form of punishment at the hands of King Helmar. Only, Artura realises that her betrothed, King Thorn of House Sorega, is not what he seems.
Whisked away from the place that has haunted her dreams for so long, Artura discovers things about herself that she never thought possible.
That perhaps all along, she really was guilty.
And perhaps it might be her greatest asset.
A whirlwind journey of pain and heartbreak, love and self discovery, ‘Queen of Poison & Fire’ will captivate you from the very start.
“I know you,” he whispered against my skin. “You and I, we are the same, sparrow. One flesh, one blood. One heart and soul. I am bound to you and you to me. I’ve known you for an age. Wanted you even longer. I waited for someone like you and now that you’re here, I am never letting you go.
You are mine, Artura. Mine.
I protect what is mine. I keep close what is mine.
I am utterly devoted to what is mine.”
‘Queen of Poison & Fire’ (Artura x Thorn, Book 1)
A Dance of Flesh & Flame
ISEULT
I'm trapped.
Brought into hell on earth because I had the misfortune to be born a woman of noble blood.
There's only one way out of this nightmare I'm living - to give him what he wants. To do the one thing I never wanted to do.
Give him an heir.
HELMAR
I'm trapped.
Spare to the heir of the throne, a seat I've thirsted for my whole life and one I can never have.
Living a facade to appease my family, pretending I am not the thing they fear most, the thing they hate.
A monster.
In this prequel novella to 'Queen of Poison & Fire,' discover what happened when Helmar met Iseult and set fate on a course no one could predict.
“This is not a love story, Iseult. You and I were not destined for one another by the gods - or, if we were, it was because the gods were bored and simply wished to fuck with me.”
‘A Dance of Flesh & Flame’ (Artura x Thorn, Novella #1)
King of Blood & Tides
After surviving King Helmar, torture and imprisonment, all the while awakening her magic, Artura finds herself confronted by a new challenge, one she never anticipated facing:
Becoming queen.
Free now of Cimran and the horrors it holds, Artura’s life is set on a one-way trajectory to ruling a foreign kingdom. It’s the cost of remaining at the side of the man she loves, of remaining free of a past that haunts her day in and day out.
But leaving Cimran behind is no easy feat, not when her only family still suffers an unknown fate at Helmar’s vindictive hands.
The promise of life in Nimue offers Artura everything she's ever hoped for. At long last, she feels safe and protected. Yet she soon discovers that so long as Helmar reigns in neighbouring Cimran, safety is an illusion at best.
When a new player emerges, promising Artura the one thing she wants above all else, she’s forced to make a choice:
The man who saved her? Or the man who raised her?
And will she be able to live with her decision should it all fall apart?
Sequel to 'Queen of Poison & Fire,' book 2 in Artura x Thorn
“I love you. The way I feel for you, it is soul-burning, heart-wrenching, mind-melting. Unconquerable and unquenchable. There is no replacing you. Not now. Not ever. And if you depart for the After before me, know that I will not be far behind, for to lose you is to lose myself.”
‘King of Blood & Tides’ (Artura x Thorn, Book #2)
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