RuinBound, A Court of Outcasts

Sometimes ruin comes before redemption.

Kaete thought she was marrying for love.

Sterling was her match in every way—powerful, magnetic, and with a pull she couldn’t explain. When the mate bond struck, it was everything she’d ever dreamed.

Until the wedding night… when he turned cold.

Banished from the Winter Court, Sterling has built an empire in the human realm—and Kaete is his way back in. He brings his new bride home, but the role of Lady has already been claimed… by his mistress, Celeste.

 Now Kaete is trapped in a gilded cage—with a husband whose touch makes her ache, but whose heart is locked away, and a mistress who rules the estate with venom-laced smiles and secrets sharper than knives.

Desire smolders. Pain festers. And the bond between them strains beneath everything they’re not saying.

But the truth has teeth.

When long-buried secrets claw to the surface, everything changes.

Power. Love. Loyalty.

Nothing is what it seemed.

A searing dark fantasy romance of betrayal, obsession, and a mate bond shattered by lies.