One Dark Window (The Shepherd King, #1)
Rachel Gillig
Elspeth needs a monster. The monster might be her. Elspeth Spindle needs more than luck to stay safe in the eerie, mist-locked kingdom of Blunder—she needs a monster. She calls him the Nightmare, an ancient, mercurial spirit trapped in her head. He protects her. He keeps her secrets. But nothing comes for free, especially magic. When Elspeth meets a mysterious highwayman on the forest road, her life takes a drastic turn. Thrust into a world of shadow and deception, she joins a dangerous quest to cure Blunder from the dark magic infecting it. And the highwayman? He just so happens to be the King’s nephew, Captain of the most dangerous men in Blunder…and guilty of high treason. Together they must gather twelve Providence Cards—the keys to the cure. But as the stakes heighten and their undeniable attraction intensifies, Elspeth is forced to face her darkest secret yet: the Nightmare is slowly taking over her mind. And she might not be able to stop him.
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0I'm enjoying this far more than expected. I typically avoid romance like the plague, so seeing it as a main genre descriptor will often mean I don't pick it up at all. But the characters are making it actually believable, where at 45% they're still very reluctantly engaging and still developing as individual characters themselves. This magic system is REALLY fascinating. It was a simple face-value system until about this point where things are getting more complex with the addition of how infected persons interact with it. If things continue as they are, I fully expect this to be a 5⭐ read.
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