Shaedes of Fire
“Lesson one: A dragon will always catch you when you fall.”
Months have passed since Opal returned to the Shaede Court after defeating the Night Prince and experiencing the epic loss of her family. While so many things seem like they are falling into place for the High Shaedes, Opal must now navigate the dueling affections of her charming faerie lover, Farris, and Edmyn, the handsome and relentless Moon King.
In addition to dealing with all the complications that are revealed about her magical bond, dragons have come out of isolation and attacked the Night Court for no known reason, leaving the faerie realm both puzzled and crippled with fear. Add some drama with the faerie-worshipping wizards in the south and some unusual nightmares plaguing her best friend, and the hard-won peace that Opal and her friends thought they’d achieved begins to quickly unravel, leading them to places they have never been before.
What begins as a journey to discover the truth in Opal’s heart, quickly transforms into a high stakes quest, which involves a magical rock hunt, dragons with bad attitudes, wizards who become family, and a spicy love triangle that wants to be so much more. Welcome back to the Seam, where magic abounds, dysfunction festers, and love grows.
Shaedes of Fire is the second book in the Soul Magic Series, and will delight all lovers of dark romantasy, complicated characters, colorful world building, and epic magic. This is the hangover cure to the Fourth Wing and ACOTAR series!
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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.
