The Thornbound Crown - Book 1

Twenty-three daughters of House Thorne have died before their twenty-third birthdays.

Maeve Thorne was never supposed to know.

With her twenty-second birthday approaching, the Crown Princess of Elaria begins waking in places she doesn't remember going, seeing black roses no one else can see, and dreaming of a dead king who claims he has waited two hundred years for her.

Then Maeve discovers the Hall of Daughters.

Twenty-three forgotten princesses. Twenty-three identical deaths.

And an empty portrait waiting for her.

Determined to uncover the truth, Maeve turns to a guarded commander carrying secrets of his own and a sharp-tongued archivist who has spent years investigating the pieces of Elarian history someone tried to erase. But the deeper Maeve searches, the more dangerous the truth becomes.

Her father has been lying to her.

Her mother's death was not what it seemed.

The man in her dreams remembers loving her.

And the people Maeve trusts most may already know how her story ends.

As forgotten memories begin awakening and an ancient power stirs beneath the kingdom, Maeve must decide whether to become the queen Elaria expects-or the monster its history tried to bury.

Because the dead king is waking.

The crown remembers.

And Maeve Thorne is the twenty-fourth daughter.