The Crown of Moonlight

Set in a stunning world built on the bones of the Scottish Highlands and the Jacobite rebellions, The Crown of Moonlight is the story of a woman caught between fierce devotion to her land and people and a growing love for an immortal warrior who will sacrifice his life to protect her from the magic that may force him to destroy her.

Flora Domhnall is determined to keep her Highland clan neutral in a war between immortal occupiers. Then she finds Chyr, a wounded immortal warrior and one of the rebel king's own companions, bleeding in her woods. If the Raven Queen's soldiers catch him, Flora's clan will hang as traitors. If she turns him away, the rebels will exact their own revenge. With every option a trap, she saves him anyway-and binds her fate to his.

The magical oaths carved into Chyr's skin have turned him into a weapon. He can't rest until the war is won, but the wound that weakens him prevents him from reaching the last doorway through the Veil to bring back the warriors needed to stop the Raven Queen. Every instinct tells him to protect the woman risking everything to save him, but putting his life in her hands is his only hope.

Hunted across the burning Highlands, Flora guides Chyr toward the last doorway while her fury grows at the suffering her people endure. Along the way, the mercy she showed Chyr becomes trust, trust deepens into longing, and every mile they share a saddle, every sacrifice made in silence, and every moment they guard each other draws them closer to a love neither of them can afford.

Then Flora's fierce loyalty draws the attention of the gods. An ancient land magic awakens in her and marks her for a trial no woman has faced in four centuries. She must survive an ordeal that ends in death or queenship. And if she succeeds, Chyr's oaths won't let her live.

He'll try to defy those oaths for Flora. Even if it means dying to save her.

For readers who have been searching for a sweeping Highland romance where history, myth, and impossible love are inseparable, The Crown of Moonlight combines the haunting historical romance of Diana Gabaldon's Outlander, the soul-deep yearning of Rebecca Ross, and the rich folklore of Katherine Arden's Winternight Trilogy. It is the first book in an epic series about power, hope, ancient crowns, impossible oaths, and a love that must survive betrayal, war, and the gods themselves.

KEY FEATURES
· Celtic myth, magic, and a historical Jacobite Highlands-inspired world
· An emotionally mature, strategic heroine with agency and power
· Reluctant allies learning to trust despite conquest and altered histories
· Forgotten queens, ancient sovereignty magic, and a contested throne

Please check content warnings inside the book. It contains violence in the context of a brutal war, explicit intimate scenes, and themes around the aftermath of sexual assault and the effects of childhood trauma. Written in UK English, dual POV.