New Avalon has a treaty with the Fae. Treaties, like promises, come due.

About the book

Sćathach Abernathy was never meant to matter to a kingdom. Winter and Autumn both run in her blood — an inheritance her family has spent generations trying to forget, until the boundary between worlds begins to fail and no one else is left who can hold it.

Prince Michael Sinclair has spent his whole life doing the parts of ruling his father won’t. He’s good at it. He’s tired of it. And when the price of saving his kingdom turns out to be a debt only he can pay, he does the one thing he has never let himself do: choose himself last.

What follows is a war fought as much in council chambers and quiet betrayals as on any battlefield — a brother’s resentment curdling into something worse, a four-hundred-year-old contract with teeth no one remembers, and a love that has to be enough to build a life around, even after it can no longer be spoken aloud.

Sćathach will rule alone. She will raise sons who ask hard questions. She will meet a White Stag at the treeline every autumn morning for the rest of her life — and never once explain to anyone why that matters.

Some debts don’t end when they’re paid. They just change shape.

You’ll love this if you like

Fae treaty · sacrificial hero · court intrigue · love beyond death · politically sharp epic fantasy

Content notes

War · betrayal · self-sacrifice · death of a main character. See all content notes.

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