Rose in Chains

Briony Rosewood is the princess of Evermore, and her castle has just fallen. The dark forces have won the war, and the hero who was meant to save her people lies dead. Briony is captured with the other survivors, who now face servitude, prison or execution.

She is stripped of her magic and her freedom, then put up for sale in an auction. As a princess she draws the highest price, and after a fierce round of bidding she goes to Toven Hearst, heir to a family known for its cruelty.

This is a dark romantic fantasy with court intrigue and magic at its core. The central relationship is enemies-to-lovers and forbidden. The tone is bleak and fairytale-like, and it opens at the moment of defeat, not before it.

Briony must learn the role her new world demands of her, and the horrors of that world are real. Help and hope may still turn up in an unlikely place. Expect a heavy, atmospheric read where the romance grows out of captivity and where the stakes are her survival and her people's.