Shaedes of Power
The beginning of a spicy, fae, enemies-to-lovers romantic fantasy about one magic-wielding woman's path to self-discovery in a series perfect for fans of LJ Andrews, Laura Thalassa, and Holly Black.
How many pieces of your soul can you give away… before you break?
In a faerie hierarchy built upon one’s ability to produce specific, color-driven magic, Opal is an outcast, and on the cusp of giving up on her future at court.
While visiting the human realm, she witnesses a dark magic shadow beast attack a human—a beast which should have been forever imprisoned in the Shadowlands. Upon her return home to the faerie realm, she finds the Shaede Palace in chaos, the vampiric Dark Princes ready to start a war over old wounds and court prejudices, and a revolving door of impossible choices.
Join Opal on her path to self-discovery and a quest to save her realm, all while she navigates a passionate romance with the charming human she manages to save from the shadow beast, and the seductive Dark Prince who captures her and wants to show her a whole new world in the shadows.
It will take everything Opal has to find her way through the darkness, but with the help of her friends and the histories of her people, she might just discover spells that can change the world.
Shaedes of Power is the first in a new Romantasy series written for dark romance lovers who enjoy spice, complicated characters, epic world-building, and a unique magic system.
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Jenny Grimes
In the quiet hours between bedtime stories and the hum of a busy household, Jenny Grimes built a world where magic pulses in every shadow and love walks a razor’s edge between salvation and ruin. A rising voice in fantasy romance, Grimes made her debut with Shaedes of Power, the first installment in the Soul Magic series—a world teeming with dark fae, forbidden magic, and the kind of slow-burning tension that keeps readers up long past midnight.
Raised in the United States, Grimes credits her lifelong love of fantasy to worn library paperbacks, midnight re-reads of Throne of Glass, and the spark of wonder she found in both fairytales and folklore. But it wasn’t until after becoming a mother—juggling art projects, travel dreams, and little hands tugging at her sleeves—that she started weaving stories of her own. Not just to escape, but to build something that reflected both the beauty and brutality of the worlds we imagine.
Soul Magic
In a realm where magic isn't just cast—it's bled, bartered, and bound by the soul—power is more curse than gift.
The Soul Magic series drags readers beneath the surface of a fractured fae world where every spell has a price, and even the shadows come alive with intent. At its center is Opal, a half-fae soulweaver whose magic defies tradition and terrifies those who would keep her in chains. Marked by exile and raised outside the rigid hierarchies of fae society, she returns not to find belonging, but to dismantle the truths she once believed were sacred.
Soul Magic consists of three books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
