The Regent in Chains

The mirror chose her before the court could bury her.

Aderyn Glassmere came to Duskharrow Palace as a minor noble with an old name, a ruined house and no reason to believe the throne would ever look her way. But when the mirror bells ring before dawn and the Hall of True Reflection gathers for a succession rite, the prophecy does the impossible.

It marks her.

Now every noble in Duskharrow sees Aderyn as either a queen, a weapon or a threat that must be controlled before she learns what power has truly awakened in her blood. The great mirror shows her crowned, silent and bleeding silver. The priests demand obedience. Prince Valtor Grey offers safety too smoothly. And the Glassbound Seat waits beneath the palace with a hunger no one will explain.

Only Hadrian Thornmere, the fae-blooded regent chained by ancient law, stands between Aderyn and the court that wants to own her miracle.

He is cold, dangerous, brutally controlled and bound to protect her whether she trusts him or not. He begins as her jailer in everything but name, but every secret they uncover pulls them closer to a truth Duskharrow has spent generations hiding. The prophecy is not sacred. The throne is not safe. And the bond forming between queen and regent may be the one thing the dying realm fears most.

Aderyn was told survival meant obedience.

Hadrian was trained to guard the crown.

Neither of them expected love to become the most dangerous act of rebellion.

The Regent in Chains is Book One in The Dying Realm, a dark adult royal romantasy trilogy filled with mirror prophecy, cursed thrones, forbidden attraction, forced proximity, court betrayal, a morally grey fae-blooded regent and a heroine who refuses to become another beautiful sacrifice.