Crown and Captive

She was meant to be empress. She wakes in chains. Mariell of Ashgate knows the salt roads better than the corsair prince who bought her — and he knows it. Kyros Ademar is careful, bruised, and executing a plan that ends with her home in flames. She is his prisoner. He is hers the moment she sees his hand shake. Between storms, poison, and a sister he believed dead, they will each betray the other — and then choose each other anyway. A dark captive romantasy for readers of hostile captors, mutual betrayal, and a surrender that becomes a marriage.