By the Horns
In a world of magical artifacts and fantastical beings, a woman with a deadly magic secret needs the help of the minotaur she’s trying to forget in the sizzling sequel to Ruby Dixon's New York Times bestseller Bull Moon Rising.
Gwenna has always considered herself a normal person. A former servant, she wants nothing more than to land a steady job with the Royal Artifactual Guild so she can make some steady coin to send home to her mother. She's not special. She's certainly not a necromancer. That would be impossible, given how necromancing (or any 'mancing) is forbidden upon penalty of death. So if the dead keep talking to her? Well, she's going to keep on ignoring them. They're not going to stand in the way of her dreams.
Also standing in her way? One big, arrogant, far-too-flirty Taurian named Raptor. They slept together once, and now he wants more . . . but she doesn’t have time for that. Her focus is on being a fledgling, a trainee for the Royal Artifactual Guild. But Raptor won't go away. He's on a secret mission for the guild to find an artifact thief.
Problem is, he thinks the thief is Gwenna.
How can she convince Raptor that he's got the wrong girl when all the signs point to her? And how do you tell a Taurian you can't date him because you hear dead people and it might cost you your life?
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Ruby Dixon
Ruby Dixon has become one of the most talked-about voices in romance, a writer who turned unlikely ideas into an entire phenomenon. Her books ask what happens when love collides with survival, when tenderness grows in alien landscapes, and when desire takes forms no one quite expects. Readers first discovered her through Ice Planet Barbarians, a series that began as a self-published experiment and blossomed into a cult favorite, later republished by Berkley Books. What started with humans stranded on a frozen world and blue-skinned warriors has grown into a sprawling universe, complete with spin-offs, clones, and countless reader discussions dissecting every detail of her imagined culture.
Royal Artifactual Guild
The Royal Artifactual Guild series invites readers into a world where the past refuses to stay buried. Artifacts are not merely relics, they hold power, secrets, and the potential to alter the course of kingdoms. At the heart of this intrigue stands the Guild itself, a society bound by duty to uncover, protect, and sometimes exploit the magic threaded through history’s remains.
Royal Artifactual Guild consists of two books 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.
