A Bride for the Winter King: Curse of the Fae, Book 2

She's wearing a dead woman's face, carrying a spy's secrets, and somehow, the most dangerous Fae king in existence won't stop looking at her like she's the answer to a prayer he stopped making centuries ago.

As a shadow huntress, infiltrating the Winter King's Yule bride competition was never supposed to get complicated. A desperate bargain with a scheming Fae prince lands her inside the ice-crowned court with a single mission: extract the king's secrets, survive the pageantry, and vanish before anyone realizes she's a complete fraud. She's hunted creatures that would make lesser warriors weep—one cold, cursed monarch shouldn't unsettle her at all.

But the Winter King is not what she expected.

Centuries of grief have carved him into something merciless and magnificent. His curse is brutal in its simplicity: each year he takes a bride, and each year the ancient magic devours her. He has loved and lost more times than memory can hold, and he has made his peace with being monstrous. Then she walks into his court, and something long-buried stirs in his chest with terrifying insistence.

The problem is that the closer he draws her in, the more impossible her escape becomes—and she's starting to want him to catch her.

*A Bride for the Winter King* is a steamy, slow-burn romantasy packed with Fae politics, forbidden desire, and a curse that demands an impossible choice between duty, survival, and a love neither of them planned for.