Part of The Kingdom of Crows, book 3
First published 2025
Zephyr Crow has a list of enemies, and it keeps growing. Dante Regio, the Faerie monarch, sits near the top. But her aunt Bronwen, her former grandfather Justus, and her Shabbin grandmother Meriam have just earned their places beside him by helping him take her captive. Now Zephyr is locked inside an obsidian underworld, cut off from every Crow, including their king. She expected to find enemies here. Instead she finds allies with their own agenda, and a version of history that contradicts everything she was taught. She and her new allies agree on one thing: Dante has to die. But Zephyr wants something beyond that. Lore is out there, and Dante is tearing through the kingdom to find her. Every day she stays gone, the man she loves loses more of himself to the bird. Zephyr has always chosen a crown over a coffin. Now she has to get herself out of an underground prison, reckon with hard truths about people she trusted, and make it back before the person waiting for her stops being a person at all.
Genres: adventure, fantasy, dark-fantasy, epic-fantasy, young-adult-fantasy
Vibes: dark, emotional, fast-paced, gritty, high-stakes, suspenseful
Tropes: betrayal-and-redemption, chosen-one, enemies-to-lovers, found-family, race-against-time
Setting: obsidian underworld, faerie kingdom
576 pages · Paperback · Sourcebooks Casablanca
Content warnings: death, kidnapping, violence