The Lies of Lena
Passionate and Dark. Forbidden Romance. Forced Proximity. Angst.
The Otacian Chronicles is a Dark Romantasy that will progressively get darker as the series continues. Please be mindful of the content warnings.
Lena Daelyra has always lived in fear, as do most Mages in Tovagoth. Mages are discriminated against, hunted for sport, and have no laws that provide them protection. She has kept to herself her entire life, even after she and her mother found a permanent residence in the kingdom of Otacia. That is until she meets Quill Callon, a handsome resident of the Inner Ring, who agrees to train her in weaponry—a safe way of defending herself. As her feelings for Quill develop, she is taunted by the reminder that she can never show her true self, show what she really is. Not even to him.
Silas La’Rune, Crown Prince of Otacia, has been kept inside the castle walls since he was five years old, since the kidnapping and murder of his younger sister, the Princess. He hasn’t known freedom. Hasn’t even seen his kingdom, except from the castle windows. It isn’t until the Queen allows him one day outside the walls that he sees Otacia for himself. One day that changes everything.
When something devastating separates Lena from the man she grows to love, things are not the same when they find each other five years later. Not at all.
And when Lena and Silas’s story finally becomes intertwined, it is clear the fate of Magekind rests on both of their shoulders.
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Kylie Snow
Kylie Snow writes where romance and ruin meet, where magic is forbidden yet impossible to resist, and where love is as dangerous as it is intoxicating. An emerging voice in dark romantasy, she has quickly gained attention for The Otacian Chronicles, a sweeping series that entwines fantasy world-building with the raw intensity of forbidden desire.
Snow’s storytelling was sparked long before her debut hit the shelves. Growing up in Illinois, she was the kind of reader who sought out shadows in fairy tales and found inspiration in the haunting atmosphere of horror-themed video games. By the time she was ten, she knew she wanted to create worlds of her own, worlds filled with flawed characters, fractured loyalties, and the kind of romance that burns brighter because of the darkness around it.
The Otacian Chronicles
In the kingdom of Otacia, magic is a crime, love is a liability, and every choice carries a price that can shatter more than one life. This is a world divided by fear and prejudice, where mages live hunted in the shadows and those born to power rule from behind guarded walls.
At the center of the story stands Lena Daelyra, a young woman who has spent her life concealing the truth of what she is. Her secrets keep her alive, yet they also draw her into a web of betrayals, alliances, and forbidden desires that threaten to consume her. Torn between her growing connection with a prince who has lived too long in the safety of stone walls and a trainer who forces her to confront her strength, Lena learns that survival is not enough—she must decide what, and who, is worth fighting for.
The Otacian Chronicles consists of two 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.
