The Cost of Blood and Bonds (The Costbound, #1)

A fantasy romance with a masked thief and a prince who falls first.

In a medieval kingdom marked by a bloody prophecy, where elemental magic and shifter forms must be earned through deadly trials, the truth stays hidden because the costs are too high to pay.

She is a rebel with a hidden identity and a secret past. She lives by one rule: never stay long enough to be truly seen.

Then, on the night of the trial celebration, she has a masked encounter with the prince. She disappears before he can see her face, and he hasn't stopped looking for her since.

When she infiltrates the castle as his new swordmaster, chasing what the king has taken from her, she realizes the greatest threat isn't the man on the throne. It's the prince who gets one step closer to unraveling her secret every day. And every wall she has built to survive is starting to give.

She thought she could survive anything. She isn't sure she will survive him.

What begins as forced proximity leads to a forbidden romance that costs them both, with a love triangle that hurts.