The Wolf and the Crown of Blood
A thrilling and incredibly sexy new romantasy series from Sunday Times bestselling author Elizabeth May.
A princess and a war-weary god met in the ashes of a broken city, forging a pact in blood and sacrifice.
Now, centuries of fragile peace are on the brink of collapse…
Bryony Devaliant was born to die-again and again. In Vartena, royal blood is the currency of peace, with every monarch sacrificed and resurrected to appease the gods. But when rebellion stirs, the god-king sends his deadliest weapon to restore order: an immortal assassin known only as the Wolf.
Evander has perfected the art of killing over centuries-until his latest target becomes the one person he cannot destroy. When forbidden desire burns between the assassin and the sacrificial princess, their connection threatens the fragile boundary between gods and mortals. And when that boundary shatters, empires crumble. Because when gods fall in love with mortals, mortals are always the ones to break.
Inspired by Beauty and the Beast and Eros and Psyche, this dark, seductive tale is perfect for fans of Raven Kennedy's Plated Prisoner series, with the wit and spice of Callie Hart's Quicksilver. Packed with dark fairytale vibes, gothic romance, and tropes like enemies to lovers, forced proximity, death pacts, and villain-gets-the-girl, this is a story where love is as deadly as it is irresistible.
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Elizabeth May
Elizabeth May writes the kind of stories that blur the boundary between myth and memory, between rebellion and longing. Born in California but rooted in Scotland, she carries the cadence of both places into her novels: sunlit imagination tempered by windswept grit. Readers first met her through The Falconer trilogy, a series where fae magic, vengeance, and steampunk invention collided in a whirlwind of danger and desire.
Her writing thrives on contrasts. With Laura Lam, she co-created the Seven Devils duology, a feminist space opera often described as Mad Max: Fury Road among the stars. More recently, she turned to Slavic-inspired romantasy with To Cage a God, a tale of revolution, sacrifice, and love that earned recognition on Paste Magazine’s Best New Books list. Under the name Katrina Kendrick, she explores historical romance, proving that whether the setting is an empire at war or a glittering ballroom, her characters always burn with intensity and conviction.
Broken Accords
In a kingdom where treaties are sealed with blood and monarchs are sacrificed to keep fragile gods at bay, survival is bound to rituals as old as the crown itself. The Broken Accords series unfolds in a world shaped by dangerous bargains, where devotion can be as lethal as betrayal.
The story begins with Bryony Devaliant, a princess raised beneath the shadow of sacrifice, and Evander, the Wolf, an immortal assassin who has spent centuries carrying out the will of a god-king. When their paths collide, attraction sparks against a backdrop of rebellion, prophecy, and death itself. What begins as an impossible clash of duty and desire spirals into a tale where every vow carries a price, and every heartbeat might tip the balance between ruin and salvation.
Broken Accords consists of one book 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.
