A Crown of Roots & Fangs

She didn't marry him for love.
She married him so her world would survive.

Queen Afia Serwaa Akyɛde rules a living city; a forest that breathes, remembers, and bleeds. When an empire of sun-walking vampires begins converting her sacred land into dead soil, she has one impossible choice left.

Marry the wolf king.

Eirik Vargsson is everything her people despise; brutal, primal, and made of the same survival instinct that has kept their two civilizations at war for three centuries. He doesn't want a queen. He needs an alliance his pack will believe.

So they perform devotion in public.
They keep their distance in private.
They tell themselves the bond is political.

But the bond has other ideas.

As the Blight spreads, the forests die, and the Blood Citadels rise, Afia and Eirik discover that the most dangerous thing on the continent isn't the empire trying to destroy them.

It's how much they've started to mean to each other.

A Crown of Roots & Fangs is an African Queen meets Alpha King romantasy of enemies-to-lovers, political marriage, and a love that reshapes a continent.

✦ Enemies to lovers
✦ Political marriage of convenience
✦ Slow burn
✦ Afrofantasy
✦ War romance