Crown of ash and oaths
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A kingdom cursed. A dangerous pact. One impossible choice.
Mira Ashworth doesn't steal from princes on purpose. She steals from whoever's cargo pays best — and on the night she boards the wrong ship in the middle of a storm, that happens to be Kael Vaunt: exiled heir to the Ashfall throne, cursed by his own cousin to turn slowly, agonizingly to stone.
She wants nothing to do with royal politics. She wants her brother's crushing debt paid off, and to disappear back into the smuggler's life she knows. Kael offers her exactly that; in exchange for one thing: her knowledge of the only waters that can get him home alive.
But home means a cousin who stole his crown and left him for dead. It means an oath-bond neither of them can undo once it's sealed; blood, vow, and fate, tangled together whether they want it or not. And as the deadline of the next blood moon closes in, Mira finds herself risking far more than a debt: her freedom, her crew, and a heart she swore she'd never hand over to anyone let alone a dying prince with a knife-edge smile and a kingdom's worth of enemies.
The curse is only the beginning. The throne is only the start. And the bond between them may be the one bargain neither of them can survive breaking.
Mira Ashworth doesn't steal from princes on purpose. She steals from whoever's cargo pays best — and on the night she boards the wrong ship in the middle of a storm, that happens to be Kael Vaunt: exiled heir to the Ashfall throne, cursed by his own cousin to turn slowly, agonizingly to stone.
She wants nothing to do with royal politics. She wants her brother's crushing debt paid off, and to disappear back into the smuggler's life she knows. Kael offers her exactly that; in exchange for one thing: her knowledge of the only waters that can get him home alive.
But home means a cousin who stole his crown and left him for dead. It means an oath-bond neither of them can undo once it's sealed; blood, vow, and fate, tangled together whether they want it or not. And as the deadline of the next blood moon closes in, Mira finds herself risking far more than a debt: her freedom, her crew, and a heart she swore she'd never hand over to anyone let alone a dying prince with a knife-edge smile and a kingdom's worth of enemies.
The curse is only the beginning. The throne is only the start. And the bond between them may be the one bargain neither of them can survive breaking.





































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