The Thorn Bride
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For three centuries, every queen of the Kingdom of Thorns has died within years of marrying the King. The kingdom calls it a sacred sacrifice. Eighteen-year-old Elara, a village herbalist with no noble blood and no desire for a crown, is chosen as the next bride.
She expects a funeral.
What she finds is a king who fears the curse as much as she does.
Kael has watched queens die and refuses to become the monster history remembers. Determined to break the ancient bargain that binds the throne to a sentient forest known as the Thorn Heart, he searches for the truth hidden beneath the kingdom's rituals. As Elara's strange healing power awakens, black vines spread through the capital, children fall ill, and the Thorn Tree begins to bloom before its appointed season.
Then Elara discovers she is carrying Kael's child.
An ancient prophecy reveals a terrible price: only the blood of the first root can end the curse forever. When Kael is struck by a thorn poisoned with the darkness of the Thorn Heart and begins to die, Elara is forced to choose between the husband she loves and the child she has barely begun to know.
In the shadow of the sacred tree, she makes a sacrifice that shatters the centuries-old bargain and saves the kingdom but leaves her heart in ruins.
Haunted by grief yet held together by love, Elara and Kael must learn that surviving a curse is not the same as healing from it. As silver blossoms begin to bloom where sorrow once took root, they discover that hope can grow even in the aftermath of loss.
The Thorn Bride is a sweeping fantasy romance about love, sacrifice, grief, and the fragile courage it takes to choose life after everything has been broken.
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