We’re proud to present the cover for Realms of Ruin, a fantasy romance by Nika McKinney!
Realms of Ruin (Astrals and Nokts Book 1)
Expected Release Date: April 7, 2025
Genre: Romantasy
Cover Artist: @OkayCreationSH
- His and hers POV
- Reluctant allies to lovers
- Forbidden attraction
- Mental health rep
- Wound tending
- Slow burn romance x Fast-paced action
- One room/ one cage
- Protective shadow daddy with metal magic
- She’s a water-wielder who can’t swim
Lady of Darkness meets The Plated Prisoner in this seductively thrilling fantasy romance
Vengeance is the game. Betrayal sparks the truce. The one thing they didn’t count on: Desire doesn’t play by their rules.
Twenty-six-year-old Ruin Vespera was supposed to become one of the king’s elite dreki, a trade that guarantees untold power beyond the magic you were born with. In the realm where darkness spreads, she has honed herself to be Haluma’s deadliest spy in an effort to secure her place. Her desire to avenge her parents fuels her efforts.
But when you’re the last person in the King’s order to be offered the coveted dreki invite, death looms in every shadow. Because the King doesn’t waste magic. He drains it.
With her entire future at stake, she makes a drastic bargain with the one man she’s been hunting- the elusively dangerous rebellion general Dominus Zarek.
When shocking orders from her beloved king force Ruin to reexamine the world she thought she knew, she sees Dominus and his desperate cause with new eyes.
Maybe the key to avenging her parents is the exact opposite of everything she’s been working for all along.
And the monsters she’s uncovered won’t let her go without a fight.
The hunter is now the hunted.
She should have been the general’s executioner. Instead, she’s his, and the realms’, only hope. Yet with every day that passes, their alliance, like the veil over the land, deepens. But to choose each other, they’ll have to betray everything they’ve ever fought for.
And falling in love might cost them both their realms.
Triggers-
Hand-to-hand combat, perilous situations, blood, intense violence, torture, death, spying, death and injury to minors, poisoning, drug use, PTSD symptoms, graphic language, and sexual activities that are shown on the page. It includes mature themes such as physical and emotional abuse, trauma, anxiety, and grief.
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