The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King: Book 2 of the Nightborn Duet Pepper Basham An opportunity for escape presents

An opportunity for escape presents itself when the prince and princess are traveling overseas and are taken hostage by a band of notorious pirates

sticking around the idyllic Christmas obsessed town of Salem

She writes dark fantasy romance and is obsessed with spicy enemies-to-lovers

drawn to the shimmering magic like a moth to the flame

The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King: Book 2 of the Nightborn Duet Pepper Basham An opportunity for escape presentsFrom the New York Times bestselling author Carissa Broadbent, comes The Ashes & the Star Cursed King, the gutting second installment of the Crowns of Nyaxia series, full of heartbreak, redemption, blood intrigue and heart pounding action. Love is a sacrifice at the altar of power. In the wake of the Kejari, everything Oraya once thought to be true has been destroyed. A prisoner in her own kingdom, grieving the only family she ever had, and reeling