The Bride of the Faceless King

von Dorla Butler

156 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Eleanor Fairchild is sent north as a bride, but she soon discovers that she was never meant to become a queen.She has been delivered to the frozen Obsidian Citadel as a sacrifice to the Faceless King, an ancient sovereign whose very existence is said to hold back an abyss capable of consuming kingdoms. Her half-brother Graham, ruler of sunlit Aethelgard, calls her journey a noble sacrifice for peace. He even gives her an ivory dagger and tells her to use it if the northern king becomes a monster.But on her first night in the citadel, Eleanor hears him walking outside her chamber.Scraaaape. Thud.The footsteps stop at her door. The temperature plunges. And through the keyhole, Eleanor senses not hunger or hatred, but an unbearable grief.The King is not what the stories claim.When Eleanor finally sees beneath his silver mask, she discovers a horrifying truth: his face has not been destroyed. It has been erased from existence itself. He has been transformed into a living anchor, his soul bound to an ancient covenant that has kept the world standing for generations.Then Eleanor learns the truth about her own role.She was never sent to marry him.She was sent to kill him.Ancient prophecy demands that an Aethelgard princess drive the sacred bone blade through the King's heart, severing the anchor and supposedly freeing both kingdoms from an ancient tithe. Graham knew exactly what he was doing when he sent his sister north. Eleanor's death was considered an acceptable price for the prosperity of her homeland.But the prophecy is not the whole truth.As the citadel begins to fracture and an ancient darkness rises from beneath its foundations, Eleanor discovers that the King has been suffering not to save Aethelgard, but to contain something far older and more terrible. The Chancellor Cassandra Ashford has guarded the secret for generations, while the monstrous Veil-Weaver waits beneath the fortress for the covenant to fail.The King has murdered no brides.Instead, they were broken by the truth of what their own bloodlines had done.Now Eleanor must decide whether to become the executioner her brother created-or the first bride brave enough to refuse the blade.With the ancient anchor collapsing, the abyss awakening, and both kingdoms standing on the edge of destruction, Eleanor must uncover the original covenant before everyone she loves is consumed by a lie centuries in the making.The Bride of the Faceless King is a dark fantasy romance of forbidden love, ancient curses, political betrayal, sacrificial brides, supernatural covenants, and a heroine who discovers that the monster she was sent to kill may be the one person who has been protecting the world all along.

• Themen: Belletristik Liebesromane / Romance Romantasy, paranormal
• ISBN: 9798182772983
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 12.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Dorla Butler