💜 What if the cruel fae king planned to sacrifice his human bride the morning after the wedding? 💚 What if the Pied Pier fell in love with the bounty hunter who was supposed to bring her in? 💙 What if Cinderella's slipper fit the wrong girl? 🖤 What if she wasn't supposed to be the villain? What if he wasn't supposed to set her free? 💔 What if together, they'll either save the world... or ruin it? A Word So Fitly Spoken She never thought she'd survive the morning after their wedding... He just might not survive her. When the fae king of Naenden returns home to his palace only to find that his human queen has committed treason by conspiring to assassinate him, he has the queen executed and decrees that once every mooncycle, he’ll marry a human woman from the kingdom, only to execute her the following morning.Unless one woman offers herself as a sacrificial bride for the rest. A Tune to Make Them Follow She's the kingdom's most wanted criminal. He's supposed to bring her in. Piper only takes the children who need taking—the children who suffer harm and neglect in their current homes, the ones who come with her willingly. The children for whom a life bound in service to the Coup would be a mercy.But when a deadly oversight leaves Piper injured, stranded in the forest, and unable to protect the no-nonsense child to whom she’s promised a better life, she’s left with no other choice. She strikes a bargain with a handsome archer whose aim is almost as deadly as his past.Oh, but there’s another rule too.Don’t fall in love.Especially not with a human who has no idea who Piper really is. Or so she thinks. A Bond of Broken Glass The shoe fits, but she’s no Cinderella. Ellie knows what she wants in life: Open a glassblowing shop in the art district. See her father retire. Marry for love. (If she can find someone who can keep up, that is). Winning the fae prince’s heart doesn’t make the list. So when Prince Evander throws a ball to find a human bride, Ellie respectfully declines. And when she reads the morning paper and discovers the prince danced the night away with a mysterious stranger, only for the woman to flee at the stroke of midnight, Ellie can’t help but laugh. Until she learns the mystery girl left behind a glass slipper. Ellie’s glass slipper. From the set that went missing from Ellie’s workshop. So when the idiotic prince decides it’s a good idea to use the slipper to identify the love of his life (because, you know, no two women could possibly share the same shoe size), Ellie doesn’t hesitate to prove the slipper is hers. Little does she know there’s been a modification to her work of art. The prince may or may not have attached a fae bargain to the shoe, and when Ellie places it on her foot, she finds herself both legally and magically betrothed to the very prince she detests. Not that Prince Evander is thrilled about the situation, either. After all, he’d thought the shoe would only fit Cinderella. Together, the unhappy couple must discover a way to break the fae bond, but there’s danger along the way. And what’s more dangerous than falling in love with someone whose heart belongs to another? A Throne of Blood and Ice She wasn't supposed to be the villain. He wasn't supposed to set her free. Silly servant girl, only princesses get happy endings. While the first three books in The Severed Realms are interconnected standalone novels, this book is not a standalone. It should be enjoyed only after reading A Word so Fitly Spoken and A Bond of Broken Glass. Blaise wasn’t supposed to be the villain. She was supposed to charm the prince, the male she’s loved for years. That was all the potion was supposed to do—give her another face, and only for a few hours. All so she could prove the prince loved her. Except Blaise got more than she bargained for, and instead of a beauty potion, now she’s infected with a magical parasite who takes control of her body every full moon. A parasite who would rather take control permanently. When Blaise is kidnapped from her prison cell, she wakes in a dungeon only to find herself the object of the Queen of Mystral’s magical experiments.The queen wants the parasite.The parasite wants Blaise.And Blaise wants… Nox, the brainy, sarcastic fae tasked with extracting the parasite from Blaise’s body. Nox is different from any fae she’s met. For one, he can actually lie. Then there was that time she sliced her finger and he couldn’t stop staring at the drop of blood. The queen definitely has something over him, but Blaise can’t figure out what. She just has a feeling she won’t be making it out of these dungeons alive. Book 5: A Realm of Shattered Lies Worlds collide and fairy tales converge in this epic conclusion to The Severed Realms!
