I sold my body for five years to buy myself a life no one else could take from me.Then a fae warrior walked into my tavern covered in blood, called me his ruin, and took the one thing I had left: my choice.Avindra has one rule: survive on her own terms. In the Borderlands, where monsters haunt the woods and the gods have long since forgotten humanity, her sharp blades and even sharper tongue were the only things protecting her from a world that has shown her no kindness.Then the Queen’s Blade walks into her tavern and she learns the gods never forgot her at all.Rathiel is a ruthless fae warrior bound to a queen, a god, and a dark prophecy. He has spent centuries fighting battles he never chose. But the moment he meets Avindra, something in her blood calls to his. He doesn’t know why she feels like his ruin and his salvation both. He only knows he’d burn every realm to the ground before he lets anyone take her from him.The truth of what they are might be more dangerous than the prophecy Rathiel has spent centuries trying to survive.Sacred Ruin is a dark, slow-burn romantasy about a woman who spent her whole life fighting to own her body, her voice, and her fate, and the fae warrior who'd rather burn it all down than watch her lose any of it again. Read more