The Midnight Heir

The Midnight Heir is Book Two of The Night Throne Saga

She was supposed to die in the Hollow Rite.

Instead, she awakened the throne they tried to bury.

Isolde Arden has spent her life surviving in the poorest streets of Velmora, where power belongs to the Crown, mercy is a luxury, and girls like her are expected to stay invisible. She was a healer. A nobody. A lower-district girl with no title, no protection, and no reason to believe the ancient stories about royal blood, monstrous beasts, and forgotten courts had anything to do with her.

Then the Hollow Rite changed everything.

Now Isolde carries a forbidden mark in her palm, a bond she never asked for, and a power old enough to terrify queens. The Crown wants her captured. The priests want her controlled. The old rider houses want her tested. The drowned things beneath the city know her name.

And Cassian Valegrave, the dangerous prince who should have been her enemy, is the only one standing close enough to keep them all from claiming her.

Declared dead by his own mother, hunted by the court that raised him, and bound to Isolde by magic neither of them fully understands, Cassian is cold, wounded, ruthless, and impossible to trust safely. He knows the cost of royal power. He knows what crowns do to girls with useful blood. He knows every reason Isolde should run from him.

But the bond between them does not care about reason.

It burns through every wall they build. It turns pain into intimacy, loyalty into temptation, and survival into something far more dangerous than desire. Cassian wants to protect her. Isolde refuses to be protected into another cage. Between them lies a connection that could save a kingdom, destroy a throne, or become the one weakness neither of them can afford.

As ancient dragon riders gather, Veilborn beasts rise from shadow and storm, and the Midnight Court awakens beneath the mountain, Isolde must face the truth of her hidden bloodline. Her mother's past is not buried. The old vows are not dead. The throne was never empty.

It was waiting.

But power always comes with a price.

To survive, Isolde must decide whether she is a bride, a weapon, a queen, or something the world has never seen before. Because the Crown has stolen too much. The old houses have hidden too much. The dead are waking. The sea is listening.

And the Midnight Heir is done being the last to know.

The Midnight Heir is Book Two of The Night Throne Saga, a dark, addictive romantasy series filled with dragon riders, forbidden magic, deadly court politics, fated bonds, slow-burn tension, ancient monsters, royal betrayal, hidden bloodlines, shadow magic, and a powerful heroine coming into her own.

Perfect for readers who love dragon rider romantasy, slow-burn fantasy romance, enemies-to-lovers tension, morally gray princes, bonded magic, dangerous courts, royal intrigue, powerful heroines, ancient prophecies, monstrous beasts, forbidden desire, and epic fantasy romance with high stakes.