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A Kingdom Built from Our Bad Dreams cover

A Kingdom Built from Our Bad Dreams

An adult dream-builder and an enemy knight discover their kingdom's walls are made from nightmares stolen from ordinary sleepers. Saving the city requires returning its people's dreams without letting the lovers become its next prison.

Romantasy
The Sword Refuses the Hero cover

The Sword Refuses the Hero

The realm's sacred sword will only be drawn by someone willing to lose. A battlefield medic must convince a celebrated champion to stop winning a war that feeds the blade.

Epic fantasy
The Oath Between Our Shadows cover

The Oath Between Our Shadows

A shadow cartographer and an enemy envoy discover their shadows have sworn a peace neither government will accept. Saving the city means deciding whether to trust a promise their bodies made without them.

Romantasy
The War Is Held Together by Thread cover

The War Is Held Together by Thread

An imperial seamstress learns that the banners she repairs stitch enemy armies into the same endless battle. Unpicking her finest work could unravel the border itself.

Epic fantasy