Queen of Spades
“She’s scared. She should be.”
Queen of Spades is a romantic, high fantasy set in Wonderland. As the first book in the standalone series ‘A Realm of Wonder’, we follow the new Queen of the empire of Spades–Lucia Everspears. Queen of Spades introduces a world of new magical creatures, cultures and its very own mythology. Read the book and fall into the flat-earth world of Wonderland as Lucia battles prophecies, fae and other unearthly creatures in an attempt to stay alive. All the while, she’s falling for the one male, who’s forced to kill her. She needs his help. He needs her.
“He might be Grim’s to order but he’s mine to bleed. Mine to keep.”
Blurb
He might be the answer to all her prayers…or he might kill her in her sleep.
While both managing a rocky empire and battling narrow-minded rebels. Lucia–the Queen of Spades–is also desperately searching for a magical relic. When an enemy assassin attacks her in her rooms she finds the solution to all her problems. But can she trust that he won’t slit her throat instead? It’s a risk she has to take. She needs his help. He needs her. But he’s fae and she’s human, right?
All his life, he’s been following the king’s orders. So, when he’s sent to the enemy continent to kill its young and mortal queen, he thinks nothing of it. That is…until he meets her. And for the first time in his immortal life he hesitates. One hesitation leads to another and suddenly, he is throwing his own body in harm’s way in order to protect her He wants her He needs her. But is he strong enough to defy the King and to live with the consequences? Does he have a choice?
Trigger warnings
Torture, murder, murder attempts, death, fire, graphic war, genital mutilation, explicit sex, spiders*.
Mentions of abuse, slavery, neglect, racism, murder, rape, pedophilia and rituals.
*dm the author through her instagram to know which chapter
Tropes
- Reluctant enemies-to-lovers
- A quest for immortality
- Political games
- He tries to kill her
- Fated mates
- Morally grey FMC
- Ancient gods and a magical mythology
- War and battles and ballgowns
- Fae and demifae (but not in the way you think)
- He’s lowkey obsessed with her
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Aria Bennett
Aria Bennett
