Books like Radiance
Ildiko, a plain noblewoman of the human Gauri court, is married off to seal an alliance with Brishen Khaskem, a prince of the Kai, a people as monstrous to her as she is to them, and the two make the best of it with wit and growing tenderness.
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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.
The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy
Hart, a marshal who patrols a wild, magic-haunted borderland, and Mercy, who runs her family's undertaking business, can't stand each other, and neither knows that the anonymous friend each has been writing letters to is the other.
The Hurricane Wars
Talasyn, an orphaned soldier who can weave light, has spent ten years fighting the Night Empire, whose heir Alaric commands shadow. After a defeat on the battlefield, a political marriage binds the two enemies together.
Assistant to the Villain
Evie Sage needs a job to support her family, so when she lands a position as assistant to the Villain, the kingdom of Rennedawn's most feared man, she tries to treat it like any office job, despite the dungeons and her very attractive boss.
The Bridge Kingdom
Lara, a princess raised in a desert compound and trained as a spy, is sent to marry the king of Ithicana, the island nation that controls the only bridge between two continents, with orders to find its weaknesses and bring it down.
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.
Throne of the Fallen
Prince Envy of hell, whose court is being wasted by a slow malady, enters a dangerous magical game with a prize that could save his people, and crosses paths with Camilla Antonius, a gifted painter struggling to keep her late father's gallery open while a local lord blackmails her over a secret.
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.
Shield of Sparrows
Princess Odessa of Quentis, long overshadowed by her half-sister, is married off to Prince Zavier of Turah, the kingdom where monsters breed, as part of her father's schemes, and finds herself drawn instead to Zavier's mysterious bodyguard, the Guardian.
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 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.
Wild Reverence
Matilda, the youngest goddess of her underworld clan, carries letters between the realms, and ten years after a mortal boy she knew from dreams prayed to her for help that never came, she tumbles through his window with a letter that will change both their fates.