Crown of Black Flame

She was sent to banish a monster. She found a trapped god—and a deadly conspiracy carved into her own skin.

For eleven years, Seryn has been a quiet copyist for the Order, translating ancient texts and drawing sacred covenants. But when she is sent deep beneath the mountain to sacrifice herself and banish a dark demon, she discovers every painted warning she ever copied was a lie.

Vaust is no mindless beast. Made of volcanic glass, gold fire, and ancient sorrow, he is a fallen king holding four living divine sparks inside his chest. Bound to the temple's foundations, he has been trapped for centuries while the city's priests harvest human lives under the guise of holy warmth.

When Seryn discovers her beloved mentor trapped in stone and her own body marked with possession seals, she realizes the priests never intended for her to survive. To save her mentor and her city, Seryn must bind herself to Vaust, take the ancient crown into her own flesh, and bear the unimaginable weight of four resurrecting divine lives.

As the deadly annual collection approaches, the heat between scribe and monster ignites into an unyielding passion. But breaking a god's cage comes at a price—and Seryn must decide how much of herself she is willing to burn to rewrite their destiny.

Crown of Black Flame is a spicy dark fantasy romance featuring an intelligent scribe heroine, an obsidian monster hero with a heart of gold, forced proximity, magical conspiracies, and explicit heat.