Alexis L. Menard

The #BestofBookTok author of House of Bane and Blood is back with an enthralling standalone romantasy about a desperate necromancer, a centuries-old con man, and the past they are doomed to repeat. The Cycle always repeats itself. Why would this one have a different ending? The Past: Osric Hale lives, steals, and commits all sorts of vices under the ruthless...

After the death of my father, I vowed that if I ever met a member of the Attano family, I'd kill them. Instead, I married one. Magic, smoke, and steam swirl in the air. High in their mansions, the ruling cartels play games of blood and secrets, while monsters lurk in the alleyways below. Once I was the most powerful...

Nicolai Attano is ruthless, relentless, deadly. And he's mine. In a city where criminals rule the streets, I fell for the most dangerous of them all. And our love made me a target... Kidnapped by Nicolai's enemies, I wake up in a prison of enchanted stone and steel—a place where only the strongest survive. Dark magic is burning in my...