She broke into his vault for one thing. She's leaving with a debt she never expected to want to keep.

When Wren Ashgrove is caught stealing back her father's ring from the fae stronghold occupying her fallen city, General Cassian Vale offers her a choice: execution, or an ancient debt-bond that binds her to his household for a year and a day. She takes the bond. She does not expect to survive her hatred of him intact.

Cassian Vale conquered her home. He tells himself that's the only reason he watches her so closely — the only reason her presence in his household has started to feel less like a debt owed and more like something he isn't in any hurry to see repaid. But a rival on the court's council wants Cassian gone, and a bonded debtor entangled with the man who holds her debt is exactly the weapon he's been waiting for.

Enemies. A cage neither of them chose. And a bond that was never supposed to become the truest thing either of them has ever felt.

The Debt of Crowns is a high-heat, standalone-with-series-ties romantasy of enemies-to-lovers, forced proximity, and a power imbalance that only one of them is brave enough to name. Contains explicit content and themes of captivity and power imbalance intended for adult readers.