Secrets of Venatus-A Kiss for a Crown

Faking an engagement with the heir to the throne is the least of your problems when you're accused of murder.Issa has never had to earn anything. The crown, the court's respect, her father's protection-everything was hers by birth, and she spent years gambling it away while the realm quietly rotted around her.So when the Ministero forces her hand, demanding she marry or lose the throne, Issa does what she does best: make a terrible plan with absolute confidence. She kidnaps Hale, a mortal museum curator who has accidentally stumbled into ancient magic, sprouted wings, and become the kind of problem powerful people would rather bury than explain. Then she presents him to the court as her future consort.Hale isn't cooperating. He wants his old life back, not a fake engagement, a betrothal mark on his hand, and a front-row seat to political disaster. But with enemies closing in, magical creatures reemerging, and something deadly shifting beneath the modern world, staying near Issa may be the only thing keeping him alive.As court intrigue turns ruthless and their forced alliance burns into something far more dangerous, Issa and Hale must decide who they can trust: the corrupt powers tearing their world apart, or each other.Because falling in love might be the one thing that saves them-if it doesn't destroy them first.A Kiss for a Crown is a propulsive contemporary fantasy featuring a fake engagement, enemies-to-lovers tension, dual points of view, and a flawed heir forced to become the leader her realm needs.Every bargain has teeth, every glance is a risk, and falling for the enemy could cost them everything.