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IRON AND IVY

Subgenre
romantasy
Edition year
2026-04-16
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Calla Ashborne, the iron-warden's daughter of Ashenveil, has spent her life guarding her village from the fae who took her mother. When Emrys Cavanor, Lord of the Thornwood Court, crashes through her forge doors at midnight bleeding silver and burning alive, she breaks every rule by hiding him beneath her forge instead of killing him. As the iron veins protecting the village crack and die, only Calla can walk into the dying Thornwood and pull the corruption through her own iron-blooded body.

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  • Enemies to Lovers: “She should kill him. She doesn't.” source
  • Fae Romance: “Emrys Cavanor — Lord of the Thornwood Court, seven hundred years old, morally grey, and carrying a guilt that is rotting the forest from the inside” source
  • Forbidden Love: “She was raised to hate them. He was dying because of it.” source
  • Morally Gray: “morally grey, and carrying a guilt that is rotting the forest from the inside” source
  • Sacrifice: “The only way to stop what's coming requires Calla to walk into the dying Thornwood and pull the corruption through her own iron-blooded body.” source
  • Strong Heroine: “She does not feel. She does not hesitate. She does not let them in.” source
  • Tortured Hero: “carrying a guilt that is rotting the forest from the inside” source

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