
Shares bargain / deal, enemies to lovers & slow burn.
Read-alikes
A Kingdom This Cursed and Empty is enemies to lovers, slow burn & fae — mild (2/5), first-person, ending on a hard-won happy ending. These 12 romantasy read-alikes are ranked by how much they share with it, closest first — each one explained.
Book two of the Kingdom of Lies series. To keep her brother alive, Prisca strikes another bargain with the bloodthirsty fae prince Lorian and crosses into the fae lands, where she must hide her growing power while navigating a court that would kill her if it knew what she was. As alliances shift and a continent edges toward war, Prisca learns just how much blood already stains Lorian's hands — including her own family's.
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