

With darkness closing in and the desire between them still burning bright, how long can duty hold the princess and the spy apart?

And then there's the mysterious disappearance of the king's first wife. He must protect her, even if he has to follow her deep into foreign territory to keep her safe - and even if it forces him to face the man who'll take his place by her side.īut in the idyllic Riverlands, danger is lurking around every corner.

But when the news of assassins on Velvet's trail reaches him, loyalty is the last thing on his mind. He always knew his loyalty to her father would keep them apart. Jaghar always knew their affair couldn't last. When her father announces her engagement to the widowed king of a neighbouring nation, she has no choice but to leave her home and heart behind and travel to the castle where she is to marry. And now she must lose it all again - her mask, her freedom, the man she was never allowed to love in the first place. Never did Viviette expect to find this much happiness in the shadows of Rock Hall. When duty tears them apart, will their love survive the dark secrets that threaten them? If she agrees to work with him, she could free all of humanity.She must be a queen.

But in the shadows he is playing a game of his own, and he needs Emelin’s magic to win it. The Silent Death is supposed to be the Mother’s loyal servant, her invincible warrior, her ruthless, soulless killer. The treacherous Crimson Court, where the Mother of faekind has ruled unchallenged over fae and humans for decades. Instead, her inhumanly beautiful captor spares her life, but carries her off on his velvet wings – into the one place from which no human ever returns. When the empire’s deadliest fae murderer catches her wielding forbidden magic, twenty-year-old Emelin believes her hour has come. They call him the Silent Death, because he kills without sound and leaves none capable of speaking in his wake…
