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The Star-Crossed Cycle · Book 1

Star-Crossed

The price to cross Ironhold’s border is simple: take a knight along with her for the length of a journey that kills seven travelers out of nine.

Caro Lockhart has earned two godmarks. Four more will make her the first master healer in one hundred years. She doesn’t need a bodyguard. She doesn’t need anyone, for that matter. She’s spent her career proving that, one saved stranger at a time—and then leaving before they can finish saying thank you.

Armant has spent his whole life being useful to people who have never cared what he wanted. He didn’t ask for this assignment either. But he’s watched over harder things than one prickly healer’s pride, and he’s not about to let the ice, the road, or Caro herself talk him out of getting her there and back alive.

Eleven days out and eleven days back should be enough to survive each other. It shouldn’t be enough to change anything—but somewhere between a city suspended in a cage of bone and a tower beneath a god’s eye, something starts to give.

The trials ahead will cost Caro more than she’s ever paid for anything, in a coin only she can spend. And when the door closes on the future she thought she wanted, Armant will have to decide—not for the first time, but for the only time that’s ever mattered—whether he’s the kind of man who lets it close quietly.

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The Star-Crossed Cycle · Book 2

Fate-Bound

Caro Lockhart survived the fourth trial. She’s not sure she survived what came with it.

Two godmarks remain between Caro and the mastery she’s spent her life working toward. The path runs through Narakai and across the Ralaskani Plains to the final constellation—and Armant is still beside her, steady as he has always been, asking nothing she isn’t ready to give.

But the gods don’t wait for grief to finish its work. The fifth trial is coming whether she’s ready or not. And this one won’t test her healing.

It will test everything else.

Fate-Bound is the conclusion of the Star-Crossed duology—an epic fantasy romance about the cost of finishing what you started, and what you find on the other side of the hardest thing you’ve ever done.

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The Star-Crossed Cycle · Novella 0

Oath-Sworn

A Star-Crossed Prequel Novella

Before he was Armant of the Silver Oath, he was the carpenter’s boy in Pinevale—a village of three hundred souls and a future as fixed as the wall around the common. Then the plague came.

Oath-Sworn is the origin story of the knight Caro Lockhart meets in Star-Crossed—a complete novella about loss, survival, and the long road between who you were and who you choose to become.

Set ten years before the events of the duology, it follows Armant from the last summer of his childhood through the plague that takes everything he loves, the years of training that reshape him, and the moment he walks up a road and makes the first choice that has ever been entirely his own.

This is not a romance. It is the story of the man the romance is about.

Oath-Sworn ends with the complete first chapter of Star-Crossed—a head start on November.

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The Star-Crossed Cycle · Novella .5

Battle-Tried

A Star-Crossed Prequel Novella

Before she was the first master healer in a hundred years, she was a field medic in the Chastain Ranger Corps—until a patrol gone wrong changes the course of her life.

Battle-Tried is Caro Lockhart’s origin story—a complete novella about loss, survival, and the long road between who you were and who you choose to become.

Set eight years before the events of the duology, it follows Caro as she takes a plunge with her journeyman herbwife credential and joins the Chastain Ranger Corps as a field medic. Although Caro’s always been a loner, learning the bow is harder for her than learning her fellow rangers—especially Javi Mendez, whose patience and tender hands teach her more about companionship than she’s ever known. But when a patrol goes badly wrong, Caro learns a hard lesson about the limits of her abilities—and sets her first foot on the path you find her on in Star-Crossed.

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The Star-Crossed Cycle · Novella 2.5

Gods-Marked

A Star-Crossed Epilogue Novella

Caro and Armant have completed her quest and returned to the home in Valaya-Dhara that was once just a vision. They thought the challenges were behind them—but settling into their life together brings challenges of its own.

Gods-Marked is the conclusion to the Star-Crossed Cycle. Caro has earned her title: she’s the world’s first master healer in a hundred years. Armant has returned Winter’s Mercy to Ironhold and resigned from the Order of the Silver Oath. He’s just Armant Valiente once more, and he needs to find a new path. When Caro receives a summons to the palace of the Dharani Shah on a matter of utmost secrecy, Caro and Armant’s love will be tested in a whole new way as both try to make their way in this new life—together.

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