Book profile
The Ashes and the Star-Cursed King
- Subgenre
- romantasy
- Edition year
- 2024
- Rating
- ★ 3.9 · 472 ratingsExternal reader rating · Hardcover
- Spice
- 4/5 🌶🌶🌶🌶
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Why these tropes fit
A captive queen grieving her lost family must ally with the vampire who betrayed her, trading deep distrust for a secret pact aimed at reclaiming her throne from rival noble houses and a scheming House of Blood. Their reluctant alliance grows into a devastating love set against blood-soaked tournaments, dark magic, and court intrigue, forcing the heroine to choose between seizing power through bloody means and surrendering to the romance that could undo her.
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Book 2 of 5 in Crowns of Nyaxia — see the full reading order →
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Read the source evidence
- Vampire Romance: “The Hunger Games meets vampires” source
- Betrayal: “the vampire who betrayed her” source
- Tournament: “In the wake of the bloody tournament known as the Kejari” source
- Captive Romance: “Oraya is now a prisoner in her own kingdom” source
- Revenge Plot: “seeking her revenge against the lover who betrayed her” source
- Sacrifice: “Love is a sacrifice at the altar of power” source
- Dark Romance: “heart-wrenching romance, dark magic and bloodthirsty intrigue” source
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Content note graphic violence
Edition publication year 2024
Heat (0–5) 4
Carissa Broadbent · Work-level source
This book also contains explicit sexual content.Read the original source
