The Thorn Crown Trials
A Romantasy

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A seamstress's needle is her only weapon—until the Wardens come calling with a fae bargain she cannot refuse.

Evadne has spent nineteen years stitching silence into the seams of the lower quarter, keeping her sister alive on mint tea and lies. When Clara's cough turns to blood the color of forge-dross, a gray-bearded Warden lays a pearwood box on her counter: an invitation to the Thorn Crown Trials. Seven mortal contestants. Seven fae champions. One winner earns a Boon from the High King of the Court of Briars—any wish, bound by ancient Compact. The price of entry is a life pledged to the Iron Veil. The price of refusal is measuring Clara for her shroud in forty days.

Armed with cutting shears, a bodkin of notched iron, and a seamstress's eye for the weak place in the cloth, Evadne crosses the border into a realm where thorns drink blood and shadows wear faces. The Ash Prince watches from the Briar Throne. The trials begin at the Labyrinth of Thorns and end at the Crown itself. But in a court where every gift is a snare and every alliance a lie, the girl who knows how to unpick a knot without breaking the thread may be the only one who survives long enough to make a wish that sticks.