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Daggermouth

Daggermouth #1 / 2 ✓
by H. M. Wolfe
Daggermouth (Daggermouth #1) by H. M. Wolfe
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He Is Her Ruin. She Is His Rebellion.The first thing you’ll learn in New Found Haven is mercy no longer exists. Showing mercy is a weakness, and weakness will get you killed.

The second thing is this—the Veyra are always watching. From the highest glass atrium in the Heart to the windowless slum dens of the Boundary, no movement goes unseen.

The last lesson is the hardest, but you must remember it.

Love outside of your ring is a death sentence.

The city is carved into rings of privilege and poverty, ruled by the masked elite who will do whatever it takes to hold onto power.

Obedience is demanded. Rebellion is crushed.

Greyson Serel has spent his life caught between two worlds. Publicly, he’s the flawless heir to the presidency. Privately, he’s entangled in secrets that could topple the regime. But when he’s forced into a political marriage meant to bind him tighter to the governments brutal laws, he finds himself shackled to a bride who is as lethal as she is unwilling.

Shadera is a mercenary raised to kill, not to wed. Yet when her bullet misses its mark, survival leaves her bound to the very man she was sent to eliminate. Trapped inside the corrupt heart of the city, she becomes both prisoner and wife, her every step watched, her every move tested.

Their union is no love story—It’s a battlefield. As secrets come to light and betrayals fester within the walls of power, Greyson and Shadera must decide between annihilating one another or burning the city to the ground together.

In a world where passion sparks rebellion and loyalty is paid for in blood, their forced bond may be the spark that ignites a revolution. Or the fire that consumes them both.

DAGGERMOUTH is a dark dystopian romance perfect for readers who love TRUE enemies to lovers, The Hunger Games, marriage of inconvenience, The Handmaid's Tale, rise of the oppressed, V for Vendetta and political intrigue that will keep you on the edge of your seat.

DAGGERMOUTH is book one of a duology.

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FantasyRomanceDystopia
Release date: December 5, 2025

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H. M. Wolfe

H. M. Wolfe

H. M. Wolfe writes fantasy and dystopian fiction that lingers on emotional truth as much as on imagined worlds. Her stories are shaped by tension, vulnerability, and the quiet moments where characters are forced to confront who they are beneath the systems built around them. Rather than rushing toward spectacle, Wolfe’s work unfolds patiently, allowing atmosphere and inner conflict to carry the weight of the narrative.

Born in Phoenix, Arizona, and now living in Central Florida, Wolfe’s creative path began long before novels. Music, poetry, and short fiction came first, serving as early ways to process feelings that were difficult to name. A renewed love of fantasy novels, encouraged by her sister, helped her realize that long-form storytelling could hold both imagination and emotional honesty. That influence is visible in books like The Book of Cin, Blood Rains Down, and Daggermouth, where dystopian settings, romantic tension, and political unease intersect with themes of identity, trauma, and resilience.

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Wolfe’s writing is character-driven and reflective, often exploring mental health, power structures, and the cost of survival in unforgiving worlds. Her growing readership has connected strongly with the rawness of her characters and the sense that healing, while never simple, is possible. As her body of work expands, H. M. Wolfe continues to carve out space in modern fantasy and dystopian fiction for stories that are unafraid of darkness, yet grounded in empathy and emotional depth.

Daggermouth

The Daggermouth series is set inside a city where power is inherited, obedience is engineered, and violence is wrapped in ceremony. New Found Haven is divided by class and control, its citizens sorted, watched, and disciplined by a ruling elite that believes fear is the cleanest form of order. The world feels closed in, deliberate, and quietly brutal, a place where survival depends less on strength than on knowing when to stay silent.

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At the center of the story are two people shaped by opposite sides of the same system. An heir raised to embody authority collides with a mercenary trained to destroy it, binding them together through political necessity rather than choice. Their relationship begins in hostility and mistrust, sharpened by a failed assassination and a forced union that strips both of control. As the series unfolds, their connection becomes the lens through which power, loyalty, and identity are tested, revealing how easily roles fracture when belief collides with lived reality.

Dark romance and dystopian tension move hand in hand through the narrative, grounded in psychological conflict rather than spectacle. Themes of surveillance, class division, rebellion, and emotional captivity are woven into intimate character arcs that evolve slowly and painfully. Written by H. M. Wolfe, Daggermouth lingers on the cost of resistance and the dangerous intimacy that can form between enemies, inviting readers into a story where love is not a refuge, but another form of risk.


Daggermouth 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.

Daggermouth (Daggermouth #1)
Unrated
Python (Daggermouth #2)
⧗ 8.00 / 1


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