What a journey! You enjoy watching a young woman grow from a survivor to a threat, from an innocent young woman to a hurt/experienced woman. This while the hero sees it all very closely.

If you enjoy when the romance doesn't take full shape in the first book, this is your series.

Our heroine is running away, the Queen is hunting her, her father, suddenly a powerful fighter, is gone, and now she only has one address, one destination.
It's when she finds a group of "vikings" monster hunters that are heading her destination (or so she eavesdrops). The powerful one and leader is always inches to unalive her or make her lose her marbles!
An assassin is known to kill in the road of bones, but no knows anything, including the group.
A betrayer of her kind, is sent to find our girl and bring her to the Queen.
Meanwhile she is not alone, hallucinations give life to a little girl that keeps her company.

Check triggers, there are topics of drug abuse plus the typical patriarchal abuse. Death of a parent on page.