Next Release: October 2025

Before rebellion, before betrayal—Cassia was a princess with something to prove.

One year before Under the Endless Sun, Cassia rides north in secret, sword in hand and fire in her blood. As the heir to the throne of Ellery, she’s determined to protect her people, even if it means sneaking out of the palace to hunt the bandits plaguing her border towns.

But on one mission gone wrong, Cassia is captured. Shackled in silver and taken across the frozen wilds of Labrynth, she finds herself in the clutches of a woman spoken of only in warnings: Princess Reya, daughter of the ruthless Queen Andromeda—and heir to a kingdom of wraiths.

Cassia expects pain. Death. Interrogation. What she doesn’t expect is Reya’s curiosity, her mercy, or the strange pull between them that defies every story Cassia’s ever been told.

Torn between duty and desire, Cassia must decide if freedom is worth the cost—or if the monster’s daughter might not be the monster after all.

A sapphic fantasy prequel to The Flaring Moon series, Before the Dying King unearths the truths that came before the rebellion, and the love that almost changed everything.