THE ASHBOUND CROWN

She broke the seal that stole the shadow from twenty-three bloodlines. Now something older is knocking on the door she didn't know she'd opened.

Six weeks after the ash stopped falling in the Kauriva Waste, Priya Ashvale is a second-year rider at an Academy learning to live with what she did. The shadow magic has returned to its bloodlines. The wasteland is beginning to heal. And at the third hour of every night, something speaks to her through the darkness in a voice that isn't quite words - patient, ancient, and getting clearer.

The Vrakshar seal wasn't the first one. It was the second. Three thousand years before the dynasty was built, a greater pact was made and broken - and the consciousness it contained has been waiting ever since for the rider the bridge-keeper bloodlines were always going to produce.

For fans of slow burn fantasy romance series and morally grey prince romance fantasy, THE ASHBOUND CROWN: THE SECOND DOOR is the compulsive second volume in the addictive South Asian inspired shadow magic series where ancient covenants, dragon rider bonds, and the enemies-to-lovers romance you stayed up all night for collide with stakes larger than any kingdom.

Inside this forbidden magic dragon rider fantasy:

• A 3,000-year-old consciousness waking behind a sealed door - and it knows Priya's name
• The enemies-to-lovers slow burn taking its most honest, most vulnerable turn yet
• A disinherited prince, a new Crown, and the institutional power that never really goes away
• South Asian inspired world-building expanding beyond the kingdom's borders for the first time
• A shadow magic awakening spreading to thousands - and no infrastructure to catch them