The Horde King of Shadow: Hordes of the Elthika, Book 1

When a ruthless horde king arrives on dragonback with an ultimatum—marry him or watch her home burn—a disgraced scholar discovers that survival and desire make for dangerous bedfellows.

Klara has spent years hiding in the shadows of Dothik's library, desperate to keep her most terrifying secret buried: she sees visions. Dragons. A lost world. Magic so rare it carries a death sentence. Once a royal, now an outcast, she has built her quiet life on invisibility—until Sarkin Dirak'zar storms through her carefully constructed walls and destroys everything.

The king of the Sarrothian horde needs the heartstones, the dwindling power source keeping his dragons and his people alive. He doesn't need a wife. Certainly not an unwanted princess with inconvenient magic and even more inconvenient opinions. But Klara's visions hold the key to saving his world, and Sarkin is a man who takes what he needs—whether she agrees or not.

What begins as a marriage of pure convenience grows far more complicated once Klara is thrust into the brutal, breathtaking reality of horde life. Sarkin is arrogant, demanding, and infuriatingly certain he's always right. He is also, against every instinct she possesses, impossible to ignore.

Set in a richly imagined fantasy world where dragons soar and ancient magic still bleeds through the cracks, this scorching romantasy series opener proves that the line between hatred and longing has always been dangerously thin.