Books like Six Scorched Roses
Lilith, ill since birth, lives in a town slowly withering from a god-cursed disease, and she strikes a bargain with Vale, the vampire who lives beyond it: six roses for six vials of his blood, which she believes could save her people.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
One Dark Window
In Blunder, a kingdom shut in by a magic-sickened mist, Elspeth Spindle hides an ancient spirit in her head that she calls the Nightmare, and joins a treasonous highwayman, the king's own nephew, on a quest to gather the twelve Providence Cards that could cure the land before Solstice.
The Bird and the Sword
Lark has not spoken since her mother, a gifted Teller, was killed for her magic and cursed her daughter's words with her dying breath, and when King Tiras takes Lark from her father's house as a hostage, she begins to find her voice.
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.
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.