Ruined King
(2026)(The second book in the Trident Brotherhood series)
A novel by Elizabeth Blackthorne
Four names left. One hundred years of buyers. And three men who'd burn down the coast before they'd let anyone put me back in the water.
They drowned me once. I came back with a list, and now I'm working my way up it.
The men who priced me are dying one by one, and the coast is starting to notice. A dean off a cliff. A commodore who keeps a hundred years of stolen girls in oxblood ledgers and calls it a collection. And at the top of my list, the man who started all of it: Lord Percy Trevelyan, who sold me, drowned my mother, and taught his son to grieve me with dignity.
That son is mine now.
Dominic Trevelyan refused a kingdom for me. He'll turn on his own father, hand me the evidence, and step into the space between me and a loaded gun, all to prove the one thing I've never believed, that a gift doesn't have to come with an invoice.
Kaden would raze the world at my word and only ever kills for the right reason. Will fears open water more than anything, and swears he'll come into the storm after me anyway.
But the closer I get to the top of the list, the clearer it becomes: the men I'm hunting were never in charge. There's a floor above the floor. It wears a wig. It sits on a bench. And it's been watching the housekeeper's daughter climb.
I have my mother's case, a hundred-year storm coming, and a brotherhood at my back.
Let them find out what the ghost does when she finally wears the crown.
Ruined King is the explosive finale of the Trident Brotherhood Duet: a dark why-choose revenge romance with three devoted, morally grey heroes and a heroine who stays dangerous to the end.
Genre: Romance
They drowned me once. I came back with a list, and now I'm working my way up it.
The men who priced me are dying one by one, and the coast is starting to notice. A dean off a cliff. A commodore who keeps a hundred years of stolen girls in oxblood ledgers and calls it a collection. And at the top of my list, the man who started all of it: Lord Percy Trevelyan, who sold me, drowned my mother, and taught his son to grieve me with dignity.
That son is mine now.
Dominic Trevelyan refused a kingdom for me. He'll turn on his own father, hand me the evidence, and step into the space between me and a loaded gun, all to prove the one thing I've never believed, that a gift doesn't have to come with an invoice.
Kaden would raze the world at my word and only ever kills for the right reason. Will fears open water more than anything, and swears he'll come into the storm after me anyway.
But the closer I get to the top of the list, the clearer it becomes: the men I'm hunting were never in charge. There's a floor above the floor. It wears a wig. It sits on a bench. And it's been watching the housekeeper's daughter climb.
I have my mother's case, a hundred-year storm coming, and a brotherhood at my back.
Let them find out what the ghost does when she finally wears the crown.
Ruined King is the explosive finale of the Trident Brotherhood Duet: a dark why-choose revenge romance with three devoted, morally grey heroes and a heroine who stays dangerous to the end.
Genre: Romance