Shadows of Ruin

The king is dead and the city of Ellevail has fallen. During the siege, Kade Blackthorn, a man who wields shadows, carries off the narrator. She once trusted him and gave him her heart, and she has sworn not to believe his lies again.

Back in Brookmere, the marriage trials have been broken off and her father is gone. His duplicitous royal advisor stands closest to the throne. She is hundreds of miles from home, and she cannot act until she finds a way out of Kade's hands.

She is held in a kingdom that shouldn't exist, where brutality, betrayal and a tyrant king block her way back. Kade now carries a prophecy of his own, and it ties too closely to hers to be chance.

This is the second book of The Broken Prophecy Series, an adult and new adult romantasy. It is a slow burn built on enemies-to-lovers, with a possessive captor and content notes listed inside the book. She means to bury her feelings and leave, though going may break her heart a second time.