The Realm's Cost

The trial is over.
The cost has only begun.

Rowenna Raventhorn survived the Last Anointing and exposed the first lie beneath Oathmere's crown. But the realm does not give truth back freely.

Beyond the capital, the Grey Marches are waking.

Old bells ring beneath the earth. Forgotten roads bleed white light. Children remember crimes committed before they were born. And every oath the court buried now seeks a body to pay the debt.

Rowenna follows the truth north with Garrick Serrane at her side, but the deeper they travel into enemy territory, the more dangerous his old oath becomes. The court once owned his command, his name, and the scars beneath his skin. Now the same law that hunted Rowenna is trying to claim him as the realm's substitute sacrifice.

Lady Orienne Glass still knows how to turn mercy into a weapon.

The Grey Marches remember a history Oathmere erased. The witness rolls can break the court's power. But every revelation carries a price, and every step closer to truth tightens the bond between Rowenna and the man the realm is trying to take from her.

If Book One revealed the lie, Book Two reveals the cost.

And Rowenna Raventhorn is done letting love be used as payment.

The Realm's Cost is Book Two in The Queen's Forbidden Oath, a dark adult romantasy trilogy filled with cursed royal blood, ancient road magic, stolen names, political betrayal, slow burn romance, a morally grey commander, and a heroine who refuses to save a kingdom by sacrificing the man she loves.