The Thorns We Inherit

Aurelia Moirae never asked for power—or for the gods who carved her bloodline to come calling.

After her world collapses, she is dragged into Nyxarra: a cursed city of mist and shadow, ruled by ancient grudges, blood bargains, and dangerous magic long thought buried. What begins as a desperate mission to save her brother quickly unravels into something far more perilous.

With a haunted warrior at her side and a beautiful monster at her throat, Aurelia is forced to confront magic that wounds, devotion that destroys, and the truth of what she was born to inherit.

The mist watches.
The shadows remember.
And the gods move their pieces long before you realize you’re playing.

Trapped in a realm shaped by forgotten oaths and shifting power, Aurelia becomes the center of a deadly struggle: a prince who wants to own her, a warrior who would burn kingdoms to protect her, and a legacy that refuses to stay buried. Power is a curse. Love is a risk. And survival comes at a cost she may not be willing to pay.

The Thorns We Inherit is a dark gothic fantasy romance centered on trauma, devotion, and the cost of legacy. It follows a woman drawn into a dangerous political and magical web while fighting to save the last family she has left. The story leans into lush, atmospheric worldbuilding and a slow-burn romance grounded in agency rather than destiny, with an emphasis on inherited stories—those we’re born into, and those we choose to rewrite.

“The thorns we inherit do not ask permission. They prick, they scar, they remind us that beauty was never meant to be harmless. And neither were we.”

For readers drawn to gothic romantasy, morally gray devotion, and heroines who have been called too much, too strange, too dangerous—and still loved anyway.