Finn Saoirse has spent his entire career being exactly what the Gilt Court needs him to be: composed, strategic, invisible. When they send him to the Unseelie court as a diplomatic emissary, he goes alone, armed with a carefully drafted bargain and the professional mask that has never failed him.
Aldric, Lord of the Hollow Palace, agrees to every term before Finn finishes reading them.
What Finn doesn’t know: Aldric recognized him the moment he walked through the gate. The fated bond snapped into place, and Aldric said nothing. The bargain Finn drafted to protect himself is the mechanism that will bind him to a court he came to spy on, and the lord who watched him arrive has been waiting for this since before Finn was born.
What Aldric doesn’t know: Finn is searching for something the Gilt Court buried thirty-one years ago. His father’s name. His bloodline. A gift he’s been using his whole career without understanding what it is.
As the sessions deepen and the distance between them narrows, Finn begins to feel things his training cannot explain—the weight of spoken oaths, the texture of a lie in the air, the pull toward a man who knows more than he’s saying. When the heat arrives and the bond completes, the pregnancy that follows makes everything irrevocable.
Both courts want the child. Finn wants the truth. And Aldric is running out of time to give it to him before Finn finds it himself.
A Crown of Borrowed Thorns is Book 1 of The Bitter Crown, a dark fae MM mpreg romance trilogy featuring a fated bond, a morally gray alpha lord, an omega who was built to be an instrument and became something else entirely, and a love story that costs something before it gives anything back.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Aldric, Lord of the Hollow Palace, agrees to every term before Finn finishes reading them.
What Finn doesn’t know: Aldric recognized him the moment he walked through the gate. The fated bond snapped into place, and Aldric said nothing. The bargain Finn drafted to protect himself is the mechanism that will bind him to a court he came to spy on, and the lord who watched him arrive has been waiting for this since before Finn was born.
What Aldric doesn’t know: Finn is searching for something the Gilt Court buried thirty-one years ago. His father’s name. His bloodline. A gift he’s been using his whole career without understanding what it is.
As the sessions deepen and the distance between them narrows, Finn begins to feel things his training cannot explain—the weight of spoken oaths, the texture of a lie in the air, the pull toward a man who knows more than he’s saying. When the heat arrives and the bond completes, the pregnancy that follows makes everything irrevocable.
Both courts want the child. Finn wants the truth. And Aldric is running out of time to give it to him before Finn finds it himself.
A Crown of Borrowed Thorns is Book 1 of The Bitter Crown, a dark fae MM mpreg romance trilogy featuring a fated bond, a morally gray alpha lord, an omega who was built to be an instrument and became something else entirely, and a love story that costs something before it gives anything back.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
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