The Kingdom That Wanted Her Blood

**THE KINGDOM THAT WANTED HER BLOOD**
*Book Three of The Ashbind Vow*

The magic everyone fears isn't his. It's hers. And a neighboring crown intends to cut it free.

A year into hard-won peace, Briar Ashwood learns that the guardianship she carried as a curse for six years was never a curse at all — it was a bargain, struck generations ago by an ancestor she never knew, to hold back something even a king's law was never meant to touch.

Aldermere no longer wants Vaelor's throne. They want what runs beneath Briar's skin, and in a disgraced chancellor's oldest grudge, they've found exactly the knowledge they need to take it. As a foreign crown's envoy arrives with a smile and a scheme, and an old enemy's debt finally comes due, Briar must do the one thing six years of survival never asked of her: reach for her own power deliberately, rather than simply endure whatever it does to her.

Ronan has spent two centuries ruling Vaelor by standing in front of every danger his wife has ever faced. This time, she doesn't need a shield. She needs a husband who can stand beside her while she becomes the very thing an entire kingdom is hunting.

Because the kingdom that wants her blood was never planning to ask permission — and mercy, it turns out, was never actually on offer.

*Perfect for fans of morally gray immortal kings, a heroine coming into her own power, political scheming between rival crowns, and a marriage learning to fight side by side instead of one shielding the other.*