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Inked in Ashes


A Fantasy Novel


Book 1 of the Inkbound Series


Subgenres & Tropes:

  • Fairy Tale Retelling,
  • Portal Fantasy,
  • Romantic Fantasy,
  • Revolutionary Fantasy,
  • Reluctant Hero
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This book is for you if you're into...

  • Fairytale worlds where the rules are deadly and nothing is safe
  • Palace intrigue with necromancy and murder at the royal ball
  • Unlikely heroines with animal companions and secrets to unravel
Publisher Description

For fans of Once Upon a Time, and Wicked.

Escape the page, or die trying…

I've spent twenty-five years in the Hollow, poor as dirt, cursed with a stepmother who hates me, and dreaming about a faraway land that I don't understand. Only two things that make life worth living are my falcon, Fetch, and my best friend, Molly.

But when Moll's plot to land a royal husband at the palace ball goes horribly wrong, I find myself staring at a king with a glass stiletto buried in his chest and a blood-covered Molly standing over him. We've got to move… and fast, or we'll both wind up swinging from the hangman's noose.

Worse? The palace sorcerer is using everything he can to find the culprit including raising the dead.

More complicated? Duncan… brother to the King, whose eye I've unintentionally caught, a man whose secrets might be deadlier than the undead soldiers breathing down our necks, is making me second-guess everything I've ever known.

With revolution brewing and a mysterious man calling to me from my dreams, I have no choice but to embrace my fate…

But what if my fate is beyond anything I could ever imagine? What if the only land I've ever known isn't home at all?

What if I'm trapped inside a fairytale, and the only way out… is through?

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