Thorns of Gold

She went to sleep knowing she would never wake up. He will do anything to save her.

Rosalia knew she had condemned herself to death. She accepted that, but what she hadn't anticipated was to be stuck in this in between, able to see the room around her and unable to leave it. But then the sister she had written off as a lost cause shows up… How can Rosalia keep her scheduled death on track when she's a ghost?

Midas' worst nightmares came true when Rosalia sacrificed herself. Her final request was that he break the curse to end the war and ensure her people's freedom. While she's asleep, there's still work he has to do as her right-hand man. While he's focused on trying to save a people who only ever saw him as a sacrifice, he doesn't dare hope he'll find answers on how to break his curse and give him a way to save Rosalia… does he?

But if Midas can't save Rosalia without killing her… maybe Aerona can. Only someone who truly loves Rosalia can break the curse… But after everything Aerona has been through, everything she's done to the people she was supposed to love, is she even capable of it anymore?

There's only one thing more dangerous than Rosalia's curse holding the empire hostage: The hope it can be broken in any way that doesn't end with a gold statue left in its wake.