A Feigned Courtship at Shadowspire

About this book:

Lyra has spent eight years burying her illegal magic beneath dusty ledgers and a carefully crafted mask of bureaucratic invisibility. But when a misfiled grimoire of forbidden High Runecraft falls into her hands—and Captain Kael Vance, the Crown’s most lethal enforcer, catches her red-handed—her quiet survival strategy goes up in violet smoke. Instead of dragging her to the Inquisitors’ pyres, Vance makes her a treasonous offer: help him decode the ancient binding spells hidden in Shadowspire’s foundations, and he’ll shield her from the executioner’s axe.

Thrust into the gilded viper’s nest of the royal court under the guise of a convenient betrothal, Lyra must navigate lethal masquerades, whispering vaults, and a fiancé who reads her every tell like a cipher. Vance is cold steel wrapped in courtly velvet, determined to use her forbidden gift to secure a throne he doesn’t even want—yet every stolen lesson in the solarium, every midnight dance through layers of lies, cracks the armor they both wear. The deeper they spiral into the citadel’s oldest secrets, the clearer it becomes: the magic Lyra desperatley wants to purge may be the only thing that can save them both.

In a realm where a single spark is a death sentence and trust is the most dangerous currency of all, Lyra and Kael must decide whether the fire between them is a weapon to wield—or a ruin worth embracing. *A Feigned Courtship at Shadowspire* delivers slow-burn enemies-to-lovers tension, intricate court intrigue, and a forbidden magic system that will keep you turning pages long past midnight.