Kingdom of Claw
Silla Nordvig survived the Road of Bones.
In the aftermath of her journey, her dreams of a simple life have been shattered. Beaten, betrayed, and reeling from the revelation of her true name, she flees Kopa with Reynir Galtung, ruthless leader of the Bloodaxe Crew. But Silla soon discovers Rey has been keeping secrets of his own, and they're forced into hiding together.
Stuck in a shield-home with the murderous man she thought she knew, Silla forms a new plan: master the magic flowing through her veins to save her sister. But before she can do that, Silla must face her most formidable opponent yet--her own inner demons.
Saga Volsik has nothing to lose.
They’ve murdered her family. Stolen her throne. And now they expect her to marry their son. But when she discovers her foster mother has been keeping the biggest secret of all, everything changes.
Saga’s goal: dismantle Queen Signe’s plans piece by piece. The only problem? The handsome Zagadkian dignitary who knows far too many of her secrets.
Meanwhile, dark threads continue to weave themselves through Íseldur as magic long thought dead begins to wake. In this follow-up to The Road of Bones, both women will need to find the strength to step into their destiny and stop chaos from sweeping across the land.
Return to the Kingdom of Íseldur where enemies become lovers and dark secrets hide around each corner. This installment digs deeper into Íseldur’s forbidden magic and the simmering attraction growing between two unlikely couples.
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Demi Winters
In a world of dragons, frostbitten coasts, and reluctant mercenaries, Demi Winters found her voice—not in a bustling writer’s room or MFA program, but at her kitchen table in British Columbia, balancing a toddler on one hip and Norse mythologies in the other hand. Her breakout romantic fantasy series, The Ashen Series, began with The Road of Bones, a novel that arrived not with fireworks but with a steady storm: quiet at first, then impossible to ignore.
Winters doesn’t write heroes who are born strong. She writes women like Silla Nordvig—wounded, quiet, often underestimated—who find strength in survival and power in vulnerability. Her landscapes are forged from fire and ice, inspired by Icelandic sagas and shaped by a fascination with endurance: how people endure grief, exile, addiction, and even love when it arrives at the wrong time, in the wrong form.
The Ashen
In a land where winter never loosens its grip and bloodlines are forged in betrayal, The Ashen series leads readers deep into a world that feels carved from frost and fire. Set against the unforgiving wilds of Íseldur—a Norse-inspired realm steeped in runic magic and ancestral vengeance—this dark romantic fantasy unfolds with aching beauty and brutal clarity.
The Ashen consists of three primary books, and includes one additional book that complement the series but is not considered mandatory reads and series is set to expand with the upcoming release of one more book. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
