Books like A Court This Cruel and Lovely
In a kingdom where the gods strip humans of their power soon after birth and burn anyone who keeps it, Prisca's power surfaces in her tiny village, and to survive she flees and makes a bargain with a ruthless mercenary who is hiding secrets of his own.
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From Blood and Ash
Poppy, the veiled Maiden chosen by the gods, is forbidden to touch or be touched, until Hawke, the guard sworn to protect her, makes her question everything she has been told about the kingdom and its gods.
Serpent & Dove
Lou, a witch hiding on the streets of Cesarine, is forced by a public scandal into marriage with Reid Diggory, a devout captain of the Church's witch hunters, and must hide what she is from a man sworn to burn her kind.
Spark of the Everflame
Diem Bellator, a healer in Emarion, where cruel demigods called the Descended rule over mortals, goes looking for her missing mother and uncovers a secret that ties her family to the Descended, while the heir of the dying king takes an unwelcome interest in her.
The Veiled Kingdom
The missing daughter of a hated king, fleeing her father's cruelty, is captured by rebels sworn to kill her who do not know who she is, and must join them or die, while Dacre, son of the rebellion's commander, both guards and threatens her.
Rose in Chains
The war is lost and the hero who was meant to save them is dead, and Briony Rosewood, princess of Evermore, stripped of her magic, is sold at auction to Toven Hearst, heir to a family known for its cruelty.
A Court of Thorns and Roses
Nineteen-year-old Feyre kills a wolf to feed her starving family, and a beastlike faerie comes to claim her life in payment, carrying her across the wall to his court in Prythian, where a blight is spreading through the fae lands.
A Shadow in the Ember
Princess Seraphena of Lasania was promised before her birth as consort to the Primal of Death, then refused, and she has trained her whole life to make him fall in love with her so that she can kill him and save her dying kingdom.
Trial of the Sun Queen
After twelve years in the prison of Nostraza, Lor is taken out without explanation by the Sun King's guards and made to compete in the Sun Queen trials, a deadly contest whose winner will marry the king.
The Cruel Prince
Jude, a mortal girl brought to the High Court of Faerie as a child after her parents were murdered, wants a place among the fair folk who despise her, and to get it she must defy Prince Cardan, the cruellest of them.
Immortal
Liyen, newly crowned heir to a mortal throne after her grandfather's death, wants to free her kingdom from its debt to the immortals and avenge him, and when she is summoned to the Immortal Realm she forms a fragile alliance with the God of War, whom she should not trust.
A Fate Inked in Blood
Freya, trapped in an unwanted marriage in a Norse-inspired land, is revealed to carry a goddess's blood, and the ambitious jarl who binds her with an oath orders his son Bjorn to train and protect her, the one man she cannot have.
The Ever King
Livia, a princess of the earth fae, once kept company with a captive boy king during the war; years later Erik Bloodsinger, the scarred King of the Ever, whose crown her father stole, takes her as a pawn in his revenge.