The Shadow Court's Stolen Bride

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The Shadow Court's Stolen Bride follows Sera, a pragmatic young woman who enters a marriage of convenience with a village merchant to secure safety and stability, only to be seized on her wedding day by Caelen Dusk, Lord of the Shadow Fae Court. Caelen claims Sera as repayment for a bargain her dying mother made with the ancient Fae nine years prior—a debt Sera never consented to or knew existed. Taken to the Fae realm of obsidian gates and silver-lit corridors, Sera is bound to serve the merciless, exacting Caelen. As a corrupting entity called the Hollow tears holes between worlds, Sera learns her unique ThresholdTouch ability, gained from a childhood near-death experience, makes her the only being capable of stopping the Hollow. As she trains alongside Caelen to master her power and navigate the collapsing Shadow Court, their restrained, slow-burning connection deepens, even as the stakes of the Hollow's invasion and the unbreakable Fae bargain threaten to upend both their lives.