A Crown of Echoes: A Romantasy of Forbidden Magic and Fierce Queens (The Crown Saga: Vine-Crowned Romantasy)

Her best friend's knight. Her worst temptation.

Queen Merrin is supposed to set an example. She's usually more interested in drinking with the guards.

Then her closest friend, Queen Beau, disappears from a guarded chamber—just after admitting the living forest has stopped speaking to her.

Merrin puts on a guard's cloak and rides beyond the borders no northern queen should cross. Her escort includes Windley: Beau's scandalous knight, Merrin's favorite bad influence, and a man whose forbidden magic can heighten desire.

It cannot create it.

Which makes Merrin's reaction to him deeply inconvenient.

But Windley isn't the only danger following her into the woods. A hidden crown binds Merrin to shadowy hands that answer her commands—and offer a terrifying way to bring Beau home.

To save her friend, Merrin must trust a knight sworn to another throne and wield power she barely understands. The magic might save a queen. It might also make Merrin someone her people should fear.

A Crown of Echoes opens a complete four-book adult queen-and-knight romantasy. The romance builds slowly through the first two books, with open-door intimacy later in the saga. Read in order.