The Moon-Cursed Crown

The gods did not leave blessings behind. They left relics.

When the long-lost Moon-Cursed Crown binds itself to Liora, a village healer with no hunger for power, it rips her from the life she knows and thrusts her into the path of forces far older—and far crueler—than temple rites ever admitted. The Crown is no inert thing. It presses closer each day, settling deeper beneath her skin until the boundary between its hunger and her own thoughts begins to blur.

Hunted by those who would worship, wield, or destroy what she carries, Liora is forced to rely on a dangerous stranger whose knowledge of relics far exceeds what he is willing to say. He offers no comfort and no safety, only survival purchased at a cost she cannot yet measure. But as pursuit closes in and the Crown's presence deepens, even survival begins to resemble a different kind of loss.

In a world shaped by divine ruin, mercy is easily twisted into weakness, and nothing touched by power leaves its bearer unchanged. To keep herself from becoming another vessel for something ancient and merciless, Liora will have to survive not only the forces hunting her, but the relic that has already begun to claim her from within.

The Moon-Cursed Crown is a dark, slow-burn romantasy filled with ancient relics, invasive magic, Gothic atmosphere, and a heroine fighting to remain herself as the thing bound to her tightens its hold.