A Curse of Shadows and Ice

Princess Arabella has two options when the Shadow Emperor arrives at her gates: surrender her hand in marriage or watch her kingdom burn.

She chooses the wedding—and begins planning his murder on the walk down the aisle.

This stunning dark romantasy retelling of *Beauty and the Beast* plunges readers into a world where magic demands blood and ancient curses rewrite the fate of entire empires. Arabella of Althea is sharp-tongued, ruthless, and absolutely refuses to be anyone's prize—not even a monster emperor's. The bargain she negotiates seems almost reasonable: help Felix Osiris unravel the devastating curse consuming his shadow empire, and he grants her freedom. Clean. Simple. Survivable.

Felix is none of those things.

As Arabella peels back the horrifying layers of the shadow empire's secrets, she discovers that the man behind the monster is far more dangerous than the beast she prepared to face. Felix is calculating, wounded, and infuriatingly compelling in ways that make her plotting considerably more complicated. The forbidden pull between them crackles with every stolen glance and sharp-edged argument, building toward something neither of them can afford to want.

With lush world-building, genuine horror woven through every shadow-drenched page, and a slow-burn romance that earns every breathless moment, *A Curse of Shadows and Ice* is the kind of royalty romance that leaves you reading long past midnight—and questioning everything you thought you knew about monsters.

Some curses, it turns out, look exactly like salvation.