The Thorned Crown: Where Monsters Rule, and Silence Survives (The Vampire Ashvale Covenant, #1) (eBook, ePUB)
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The Blackthorn Dominion has endured for centuries beneath an unbroken night, sustained by a covenant written in blood and silence. Its people do not age. They do not die. And they do not question the cost of their survival. The city remains intactcold stone, muted skies, streets where color has learned not to lingerbecause it must. Because the world demands a monster to hold it together.Dorian Blackthorn was raised to become that monster.As heir to the Crown, he has never been granted the luxury of mercy. Violence is his inheritance. Obedience, his virtue. He rules not through passion, but thr...
The Blackthorn Dominion has endured for centuries beneath an unbroken night, sustained by a covenant written in blood and silence. Its people do not age. They do not die. And they do not question the cost of their survival. The city remains intactcold stone, muted skies, streets where color has learned not to lingerbecause it must. Because the world demands a monster to hold it together.
Dorian Blackthorn was raised to become that monster.
As heir to the Crown, he has never been granted the luxury of mercy. Violence is his inheritance. Obedience, his virtue. He rules not through passion, but through restraint sharpened into cruelty, carrying out the will of the Covenant with unwavering precision. To the Dominion, he is necessary. To himself, he is already something less than human.
Then Seren Ashvale crosses the gates.
She arrives without ceremony, without explanation, and without resistance. A girl from a land long reduced to ash and memory, Seren moves through the Court of Night with a silence that unsettles the city the moment it recognizes her. She does not plead. She does not rebel. And yet the world reacts to her presence as if it has forgotten how to behave.
Dorian feels it immediatelynot as fear, but as hunger.
The urge to take her blood is instinctive, undeniable... and impossible to fulfill. No matter how close he comes, no matter how sharp his desire, the bite never breaks her skin. Blood refuses him. Rituals falter. And for the first time in his life, the Beast of the Covenant encounters a boundary the system cannot explain.
As the Dominion tightens its grip, Seren finds uneasy refuge in the presence of Aerin Valen, Dorian's younger brother. Where the city is rigid, Aerin is composed and gentle. Where power is enforced through fear, he offers understanding shaped like truth. His kindness feels safe.
It should not be.
Because as rituals fail and whispers spread through the Council of Blood, it becomes clear that Seren's silence is more dangerous than any scream. Her voice is bound to the Covenant in ways no one fully understands, and the words she refuses to speak may be the only ones capable of breaking itor preserving it forever.
Caught between a prince shaped into a weapon, a girl whose stillness threatens an empire, and a man whose calm explanations hide something far more calculated, the balance holding the Blackthorn Dominion begins to tilt. Loyalty turns brittle. Desire becomes treason. And the Crown, once unassailable, grows sharp enough to wound the one who wears it.
In a world sustained by blood and fear, love is not salvation.
It is disruption.
The Thorned Crown is a dark romantasy of power and silence, of forbidden proximity and dangerous restraint, and of a kingdom that can survive only as long as no one dares to speak the truth aloud.
Dorian Blackthorn was raised to become that monster.
As heir to the Crown, he has never been granted the luxury of mercy. Violence is his inheritance. Obedience, his virtue. He rules not through passion, but through restraint sharpened into cruelty, carrying out the will of the Covenant with unwavering precision. To the Dominion, he is necessary. To himself, he is already something less than human.
Then Seren Ashvale crosses the gates.
She arrives without ceremony, without explanation, and without resistance. A girl from a land long reduced to ash and memory, Seren moves through the Court of Night with a silence that unsettles the city the moment it recognizes her. She does not plead. She does not rebel. And yet the world reacts to her presence as if it has forgotten how to behave.
Dorian feels it immediatelynot as fear, but as hunger.
The urge to take her blood is instinctive, undeniable... and impossible to fulfill. No matter how close he comes, no matter how sharp his desire, the bite never breaks her skin. Blood refuses him. Rituals falter. And for the first time in his life, the Beast of the Covenant encounters a boundary the system cannot explain.
As the Dominion tightens its grip, Seren finds uneasy refuge in the presence of Aerin Valen, Dorian's younger brother. Where the city is rigid, Aerin is composed and gentle. Where power is enforced through fear, he offers understanding shaped like truth. His kindness feels safe.
It should not be.
Because as rituals fail and whispers spread through the Council of Blood, it becomes clear that Seren's silence is more dangerous than any scream. Her voice is bound to the Covenant in ways no one fully understands, and the words she refuses to speak may be the only ones capable of breaking itor preserving it forever.
Caught between a prince shaped into a weapon, a girl whose stillness threatens an empire, and a man whose calm explanations hide something far more calculated, the balance holding the Blackthorn Dominion begins to tilt. Loyalty turns brittle. Desire becomes treason. And the Crown, once unassailable, grows sharp enough to wound the one who wears it.
In a world sustained by blood and fear, love is not salvation.
It is disruption.
The Thorned Crown is a dark romantasy of power and silence, of forbidden proximity and dangerous restraint, and of a kingdom that can survive only as long as no one dares to speak the truth aloud.
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