A Throne of Pearls and Bones, book 1 : The Soul in the SwordKatherine Macdonald2023

When the storm stopped, I didn’t want to leave. I wanted to stay beneath that tiny roof and listen to the boy with the nice words forever.

Six years. Six years, and I’ve never quite shaken him from me, each word he utters in my direction as thunderous as that moment beneath the rolling clouds.

For hundreds of years, the kingdom of Albion has worked to exterminate the fey, but when the Blight, an infection that turns ordinary people into monsters rears its head again, Princess Brianna ends up taking on the mantle of Celeste, an ancient fey warrior of legend.

Teaming up with an infamous thief known as the Red Wolf, Celeste begins a quest to rid her land of the Blight… all the while hiding her true identity from her father, who hates the fey and will stop at nothing to irradicate them.

Alliances will be made and broken, friendships tested and lost, and Brianna will find herself torn between two very different men—her sweet childhood crush, Prince Aidan, and her partner, the dashing Red Wolf.

Who may or may not be the same person.

Sworn to secrecy by a prediction that heralds death will come if they ever reveal their true identities, Brianna and Aidan seemed destined for heartbreak—

And the world doomed to destruction.

Titre original : The Soul in the Sword (2023)