Part of Faebound
First published 2025
Yeeran was raised to fight, not to fall in love with a queen. But she did, and then she left. Back in her homeland, she finds her former lover rallying forces against the fae, turning every choice she made into a liability. She is caught between two worlds she has hurt and two people she cannot stop caring about. Her sister Lettle stayed behind in the fae realm with a mission: break the curse that traps the fae within their borders. When a stranger arrives in the city, Lettle reads him as the answer she has been searching for. The problem is that the Fates who once guided her have gone quiet, and she is working without their help. The two sisters are moving toward the same question from opposite directions. What is the secret at the root of the curse, and can they uncover it before the tension between their homeland and the fae court tips into open war? Saara El-Arifi builds the stakes around people who love each other and keep making things worse, which turns out to be more gripping than any battlefield.
Genres: romance, fantasy, young-adult, dark-fantasy, epic-fantasy, fantasy-romance
Vibes: atmospheric, character-driven, dark, emotional, intimate, tension-filled
Tropes: caught-between-worlds, enemies-to-lovers, sapphic-romance, sisters-separated, slow-burn
Setting: fae-realm, homeland
352 pages · Hardcover · Del Rey
Content warnings: death, war