Books like 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.
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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.
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.
A Promise of Fire
Cat, the Kingmaker who can hear truth through lies, hides from her murderous mother and her destiny as a soothsayer in a travelling circus, until Griffin, an ambitious warlord from the magicless south, takes her to be the weapon that holds his newly conquered realm.
A Dawn of Onyx
Arwen, a healer in the Kingdom of Amber, is captured by soldiers of the enemy kingdom of Onyx while fetching medicine for her sick mother and taken to the fortress of Shadowhold, where her gift keeps her alive and draws the notice of a cold, powerful man named Kane.
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.
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.
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.
Quicksilver
Saeris Fane, a thief who steals water in a desert city ruled by an immortal queen, wakes an ancient quicksilver portal by accident and is carried through it into Yvelia, a frozen fae realm, by a warrior called Kingfisher.
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.
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.
A Deal with the Elf King
Luella, the only healer in her village, is chosen by the Elf King, Eldas, to be his human queen and taken into the Midscape, a land of wild magic that is slowly dying and that only she, it seems, can keep alive.
Gild
Auren is King Midas's favoured, gold-touched by him as his possession and kept in his castle of gold in the frozen mountains of Highbell, and when war comes and a deal is struck, her faith in the man who pulled her from the slums begins to crack.