The Moonless Bride

The Moonless Bride
by Jess Rae

Soraya Wren was born without a shadow.

For ten years, she believed that made her cursed.

Then the king came looking for her.

In a kingdom where shadows can be stolen, brides can be turned into keys, and vows made in fear can bind the living and the dead, Soraya discovers the truth her mother died trying to hide: her missing shadow was never gone.

It was hidden inside the most dangerous man in the kingdom.

Evander Noct, the crown's feared shadow commander, was made to hold stolen brides, broken vows, and horrors no man should survive. He was supposed to deliver Soraya to the king.

Instead, he chooses to stand beside her.

Together with a pistol-wielding best friend, a girl with winged shadows, and a kingdom full of buried secrets, Soraya must break seven doors before the darkness beneath the throne wakes for good.

But every door demands a cost.

Every truth cuts deeper than the last.

And the final choice may not be between love and death…

…but between vengeance and mercy.