The Ninth Bride (The Nine Trials #1)

Sabine Corvyr has one move left: enter the Nine Trials and become bride to the prince whose last bride died.

House Corvyr is out of time. Its debts are due, its lands are slipping, and every slower ruin has already been exhausted.

When Prince Lucien Vhalor is summoned back from exile, disgraced and feared, Sabine sees the truth beneath the sacred proclamation: for women like her, the Trials are not an honor.

They are a sanctioned path out of extinction.

Halcyr Palace keeps its secrets behind ritual and gold. Temple officials watch every deviation. Rival brides turn courtesy into a weapon.

And Lucien is colder, sharper, and far more tempting than the monster court gossip promised.

But the last bride was not only lost. She was erased. The Trials demand obedience, blood, and desire. Sabine entered to save her house. She may have entered to become the next sacrifice.