The Raven King's Captive Bride - A Dark Romantasy #1012163

She was sent north as a peace offering. No one told her she was also the poison.

Princess Seraphine Aldaine is the forgotten third daughter of Elsmere, happiest in a stillroom full of herbs. When the Raven King demands a bride to end a nine-year war, her father chooses the daughter he will not miss. Before she crosses the Ashen Pass, he sends her a gift: her late mother's ring, and an old blessing to perform over her husband's cup at the wedding feast.

Caspian Vor, King of Corvalis, can become a storm of a thousand ravens. Every winter his curse takes a little more of him: the warmth in his hands, the feeling in his skin, the man under the feathers. By the Longest Night of his thirtieth winter, there will be nothing left. He did not want a wife. He wanted a treaty. He tells his bride she will not like him, and calls it a mercy.

Then a thieving raven hides a ring, and a hollow stone reveals what her father really sent north. Now the king who swore never to take what is not freely given must decide whether to trust the enemy's daughter, while her sister's army gathers on the pass and the Longest Night draws near.

• Enemies to lovers
• Captive bride and a morally gray cursed king
• Shapeshifter hero who becomes a storm of ravens
• An unknowing assassin and a poison ring
• A sarcastic raven familiar who steals everything
• Dual point of view, closed-door romance, happily ever after