A COURT OF SHATTERED PROMISES: A FAE DARK ROMANCE OF BROKEN OATHS.
V CRIMSON
✨ A Court of Shattered Promises ✨
She was summoned to write the oath that would protect her from him.
She didn't expect to need protection from herself.
Briar Ashveil is the last surviving oath-scribe of her guild — four colleagues dead, one missing, and a Fae prince's destruction mandate with her name written into its bones. When a compulsion seal drags her across three court borders to Ashenwild Court, she arrives furious, ink-stained, and already looking for the exit.
Prince Soren Vaelthar is four hundred years of cold precision and darker regrets. He made the oath. He didn't give the death orders. And now the only person who can prove the difference — and unravel a conspiracy fifty years in the making — is the woman who has every reason to let him burn.
Enemies don't usually share ruins in the dark. They don't usually stay until dawn.
As Briar digs deeper into the conspiracy threading through Fae courts, she discovers something more dangerous than the prince who summoned her — a power buried in her own blood that ancient forces have been hunting for decades. A gift her mother died protecting. A secret that makes her invaluable to everyone and safe with no one.
Except, somehow, him.
A Court of Shattered Promises is a slow-burn dark romantasy for readers who want their enemies-to-lovers earned — the kind of story where trust is built in ruined courts at midnight, where oaths are weapons and words draw blood, and where two people who have every reason not to fall choose each other anyway, in ink and gold and freely spoken promises.
Perfect for fans of morally grey Fae princes, competent heroines whose power is earned not gifted, forced proximity that becomes something neither character planned for, and magic systems where language is the most dangerous thing in the room.
For readers of A Court of Thorns and Roses, From Blood and Ash, and The Bridge Kingdom — but darker, sharper, and with a heroine who reads oath-documents for weakness before she reads people.
⚠️ Content Advisory: This title contains explicit romantic content, mature themes, emotionally intense scenes, and dark fantasy elements including depictions of grief, power imbalance, and political violence. Recommended for readers 18+.
