The Death King: Death, Book 1

He rides a black dragon, commands armies of the dead, and conquered her kingdom before she could take her first breath as a woman — and somehow, he's the least dangerous man in her life.

When the Death King sweeps through Scorpion Valley on a tide of shadow and resurrected soldiers, fifteen-year-old Princess Isolde comes face to face with the conqueror himself. Clad in black armor and radiating the kind of power that shouldn't belong to anything mortal, he makes a choice that will define the next decade of her existence: he spares her. It doesn't feel like a gift.

Ten years of brutal labor in the Arid Sands, mining Black Diamonds under a merciless sun, has hardened her into something unbreakable. But survival grows more complicated by the day. General Titan, her direct overseer, has developed an obsession that goes far beyond the professional — and his attention is the kind that leaves marks.

This dark romantasy builds a world where power is everything and mercy is always a transaction waiting to be cashed in. With a morally complex hero who rules through fear, a heroine forged in suffering who refuses to be diminished, and a tension that crackles between enemy lines, *The Death King* asks a seductive and unsettling question: what do you owe the man who destroyed your world but saved your life?

Some debts are paid in blood. Others are far more dangerous.