Crown Me Dead: A Dark Fantasy Romance (Heartstring Duet) John Steinbeck The next-in-series to the New

The next-in-series to the New York Times bestseller The Wren in the Holly Library

and the ghosts of our pasts

The two hundred years’ (and counting) peace is a time of tranquility that hasn’t been seen since

in this enthralling novel in stories from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Mercy Thompson series

Crown Me Dead: A Dark Fantasy Romance (Heartstring Duet) John Steinbeck The next-in-series to the NewWed me. Bed me. Slit my throat. Born in dirt, raised in rot, I dig graves for the dead, While the living decay around me. When my brother coughs blood, He appears. A man too polished for the graveyard, With a bargain too cruel for the light: Seduce the King. Become the Queen. Die. And my brother lives. Kael is a nightmare of living ruin, The rotting ruler of a festering realm. And Vale is his shadow, The cold architect of my demise. One man needs my