They tell you the kiss wakes the kingdom. They never tell you what the kingdom was put to sleep to survive.
The thorn cuts everyone. That is what a thorn is for. It has never once cut Bryony Fell.For a hundred years the fae kingdom of Aldermere has slept behind a wall of living black thorn, and the mortal town on the other side has lived off the silver that bleeds from it — and stayed, on pain of death, on its own side of the wall. Bryony has kept that law her whole life. She has also kept a secret: the thorn parts for her. It always has.
When a sleeping sickness leaks out of the failing hedge and takes her little sister, Bryony does the one thing no one in a century has dared. She walks through the wall.
Inside, she finds a frozen court, a dying dragon chained in the dark — and the kingdom's last waking lord, cursed a hundred years ago to hold the wall alone. Cael Duskthorn cannot be touched. Any hand that finds his bare skin dies in his place. He has not been touched in a century.
She needs his lore to save her sister. He needs her passage through a thorn that answers to no one else. Neither of them counts on the truth buried under the wall: the sleep was never a curse. It was a mercy — and someone has been quietly murdering a dragon for a hundred years to keep it running.
To break it, Bryony will have to do the one thing that should kill her. She will have to put her hand on a cursed man and hold on.
Thornwake is a standalone fae-and-dragon romantasy for readers who love a touch-starved morally-grey hero, a heroine who doesn't flinch, a dragon who is a person and not a mount, and a slow burn that pays off open-door. Come for the sleeping kingdom. Stay for the one touch that was supposed to kill.
Forbidden touch. A dying dragon. A curse that only breaks the way no one is brave enough to try.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
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