The Thread and the Dagger

She came to kill the fae lord. He offered her a crown.

Three years after the fae court took her sister, Elara Thornwood is the only person in her village who remembers Maren existed. Armed with an iron dagger and her father's maps, she crosses the border to demand answers from the ruler who let Maren die.

Caelindra offers a bargain: one year as his queen. If she cannot freely love him by the thirteenth moon, he will kneel before her blade.

Elara accepts to uncover the truth. But the palace is already erasing her reflection, its archives conceal generations of vanished queens, and the failing boundary threatens everyone she left behind.

Working beside Caelindra, she discovers a man capable of tenderness-and responsible for cruelties tenderness cannot undo. As attraction takes root, a buried record threatens the fragile trust between them.

To save herself and the people trapped in his realm, Elara must find a way to break the throne's hold. But every route to freedom leads through the man she came to destroy.

The Thread and the Dagger is a standalone adult romantasy novella about dangerous bargains, grief, accountability and a love that must be freely chosen.

Features slow-burn romance and kissing, without explicit sex scenes.