T.A. Lawrence

She’s a wanted criminal, but he doesn’t have to know that. Piper’s job is simple. Take the children. Don’t get caught. The rules she binds on herself; however… Well, they’re a tad more complicated. Kidnapped as a child for her connection with the Old Magic—the one that grants her the ability to enchant others with her music—Piper knows good and well the rules of the Coup, the underground organization intent on bringing down the fae regime. As the Coup’s first “recruiter,” she’s supposed to take the strong, the good-boned, the clever, the healthy. Except Piper doesn’t always do what she’s supposed to. Instead, she makes a few rules of her own. Like how she only takes the children who need taking—the children who suffer harm and neglect in their current homes, the ones who come with her willingly. The children for whom a life bound in service to the Coup would be a mercy. But when a deadly oversight leaves Piper injured, stranded in the forest, and unable to protect the no-nonsense child to whom she’s promised a better life, she’s left with no other choice. She strikes a bargain with a handsome archer whose aim is almost as deadly as his past. Oh, but there’s another rule too. Don’t fall in love. Especially not with a human who has no idea who Piper really is. Fast-paced and action-packed, this second installment in The Severed Realms series transports the reader across Alondria to Avelea, a kingdom full of wicked forest faeries, underground rebellions, and a king with a secret of his own. A Tune to Make Them Follow is the second book in a series of interconnected fairytale retellings. This book can serve as a standalone, or as an entry point into the series.

One stunning bride. One wedding. One night with the king. One execution come morning. Rinse and repeat. When the fae king of Naenden returns home to his palace only to find that his human queen has committed treason by conspiring to assassinate him, he has the queen executed and decrees that once every mooncycle, he’ll marry a human woman from the kingdom, only to execute her the following morning. Unless… Unless one woman offers herself as a sacrificial bride for the rest. Asha isn’t worried about being chosen, of course. The decree was quite clear about beauty being among the top criteria for being selected as one of the king’s unfortunate brides. And Asha is no beauty, all thanks to the illegal magic that inhabits her body, leaving her scarred and missing an eye. The same magic that occasionally possesses her voice so it can amuse itself by telling a never-ending story with a string of horrible cliffhangers. The problem is, Asha might not be a beauty, but her sister Dinah is. When Asha realizes Dinah is in danger of being selected as the king’s sacrificial bride, Asha decides she can’t live with that risk. So she offers herself instead. Except on the night of their wedding, the king grants Asha a final request. Naturally, she asks to tell her sister one last bedtime story. Naturally, the king eavesdrops. The question is… Will the story save her life…or ruin it? A tale of love and betrayal, vengeance and sacrifice, magic and romance, this imaginative retelling of 1,001 Nights will keep you guessing with each turn of the page.

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Shackled by a fae bargain. A prisoner in her own body. Wendy Darling has been forced to choose Peter for so long, it’s starting to feel like her decision. Between her Mating Mark, now exclusively tied to Peter, and their bargain, she’s no longer sure where the real Wendy ends and the magic begins. But Peter isn’t the only fae she’s ever made a bargain with. Time is ticking on her agreement with the Nomad—deliver Tink into his possession. But the shadows of Neverland whisper secrets, and once Wendy learns the truth, it might just rip her in two. Will Captain Nolan Astor come for her? Or did his love die with the Mating Mark Wendy severed? This is the third installment in The Lost Girl Series, a dark fantasy Peter Pan retelling with winged fae, shadow magic, enemies-to-lovers romance, fated mates, pirates, and a chilling mystery haunting Neverland.

Sometimes the shadows whisper.Sometimes I whisper back.When Wendy's parents made a bargain with a Fate to save her from a deathly illness as a child, they thought the terms were Marry her off before her twentieth birthday or else deliver her over to the Shadow Keeper.But when a Mating Mark appears on Wendy's skin, finding a husband becomes a tad more complicated. After all, no one wants a wife mated to another man.As Wendy's twentieth birthday approaches and she's yet to find a man who will take her, she and her parents throw a masquerade ball in a last ditch effort to free her from her curse.But nothing is as it seems, and when disaster strikes, Wendy must choose between running from the shadows and embracing them.Losing Wendy is a dark fantasy Peter Pan reimagining with fated mates, slow-burn enemies to lovers romance, winged fae, and a chilling mystery haunting Neverland.

One stunning bride. One wedding. One night with the king. One execution come morning. Rinse and repeat. When the fae king of Naenden returns home to his palace only to find that his human queen has committed treason by conspiring to assassinate him, he has the queen executed and decrees that once every mooncycle, he'll marry a human woman from the kingdom, only to execute her the following morning. Unless... Unless one woman offers herself as a sacrificial bride for the rest. Asha isn't worried about being chosen, of course. The decree was quite clear about beauty being among the top criteria for being selected as one of the king's unfortunate brides. And Asha is no beauty, all thanks to the illegal magic that inhabits her body, leaving her scarred and missing an eye. The same magic that occasionally possesses her voice so it can amuse itself by telling a never-ending story with a string of horrible cliffhangers. The problem is, Asha might not be a beauty, but her sister Dinah is. When Asha realizes Dinah is in danger of being selected as the king's sacrificial bride, Asha decides she can't live with that risk. So she offers herself instead. Except on the night of their wedding, the king grants Asha a final request. Naturally, she asks to tell her sister one last bedtime story. Naturally, the king eavesdrops. The question is... Will the story save her life...or ruin it? A tale of love and betrayal, vengeance and sacrifice, magic and romance, this imaginative retelling of 1,001 Nights will keep you guessing with each turn of the page.

Silly servant girl, only princesses get happy endings. While the first three books in The Severed Realms are interconnected standalone novels, this book is not a standalone. It should be enjoyed only after reading A Word so Fitly Spoken and A Bond of Broken Glass . A Throne of Blood and Ice is the first in a two-part finale to the series. Blaise wasn’t supposed to be the villain. She was supposed to charm the prince, the male she’s loved for years. That was all the potion was supposed to do—give her another face, and only for a few hours. All so she could prove the prince loved her. Except Blaise got more than she bargained for, and instead of a beauty potion, now she’s infected with a magical parasite who takes control of her body every full moon. A parasite who would rather take control permanently. When Blaise is kidnapped from her prison cell, she wakes in a dungeon only to find herself the object of the Queen of Mystral’s magical experiments. The queen wants the parasite. The parasite wants Blaise. And Blaise wants… Nox, the brainy, sarcastic fae tasked with extracting the parasite from Blaise’s body. Nox is different from any fae she’s met. For one, he can actually lie. Then there was that time she sliced her finger and he couldn’t stop staring at the drop of blood. The queen definitely has something over him, but Blaise can’t figure out what. She just has a feeling she won’t be making it out of these dungeons alive. Witty, heartbreaking, and devastatingly dark, A Throne of Blood and Ice transports the reader to the kingdom of Mystral, where betrayal rots the queen’s cold heart and vampires lurk in the shadows. A Throne of Blood and Ice is a loose fairytale retelling of The Snow Queen and is the fourth installment in the fantasy romance series The Severed Realms. It is the first in a two-part finale.

Silly servant girl, no one cares about saving the villain. A Realm of Shattered Lies is the second in a two-part finale to The Severed Realms series. Blaise wasn’t supposed to be the villain, but now Nox is gone, and Blaise will stop at nothing to get him back. Even if that means betraying everyone she holds dear. Meanwhile, Asha can’t help but shake the feeling that Az is closing in on her. After all, he’s been two steps ahead of her and Kiran from the beginning. All she can do is hope he stays too focused on opening the Rip to learn the Az is the true heir to the throne. Between her nightmares, Ellie’s secret, and the news that Piper has been taken captive by Queen Abra, Asha isn’t sure she can handle much else. Especially not an enemy in their midst. Realms collide and stories converge in this epic finale to The Severed Realms series.

The shoe fits, but she’s no Cinderella. Ellie knows what she wants in life: Open a glassblowing shop in the art district. See her father retire. Marry for love. (If she can find someone who can keep up, that is). Winning the fae prince’s heart doesn’t make the list. So when Prince Evander throws a ball to find a human bride, Ellie respectfully declines. And when she reads the morning paper and discovers the prince danced the night away with a mysterious stranger, only for the woman to flee at the stroke of midnight, Ellie can’t help but laugh. Until she learns the mystery girl left behind a glass slipper. Ellie’s glass slipper. From the set that went missing from Ellie’s workshop. So when the idiotic prince decides it’s a good idea to use the slipper to identify the love of his life (because, you know, no two women could possibly share the same shoe size), Ellie doesn’t hesitate to prove the slipper is hers. Little does she know there’s been a modification to her work of art. The prince may or may not have attached a fae bargain to the shoe, and when Ellie places it on her foot, she finds herself both legally and magically betrothed to the very prince she detests. Not that Prince Evander is thrilled about the situation, either. After all, he’d thought the shoe would only fit Cinderella. Together, the unhappy couple must discover a way to break the fae bond, but there’s danger along the way. And what’s more dangerous than falling in love with someone whose heart belongs to another?