THE SUNDERED REALM series book 1
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Coming 2027

Of Beasts and Blood

He left to hunt monsters, not knowing she was one of them.
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Maeve has lived in fear of herself ever since the night a kiss revealed what she truly was—and killed the boy who had just asked her to marry him. She keeps to the edges of a village that already views her with suspicion, resigned to a life of secrets and seclusion.

Then the one she could never forget comes home.

Kaelen has spent seven years becoming a veilwalker, trained to hunt monsters that lurk beyond the veil. He comes back not for the girl who was once his closest friend—his first love, the only person who ever truly knew him—but to investigate a string of ritual murders that have left bodies marked with ancient symbols. He has spent an entire journey home telling himself he is ready to see Maeve. He is wrong.

The girl he remembers is still there beneath the fear and the years, and she will make him question everything he swore to be.

And something far older than either of them has been waiting a very long time for someone like her to exist.

DIVE INTO THE kingdom within SERIES

An impossible choice between love and duty.

As Princess Meredith’s eighteenth birthday nears, so does the fate she’s dreaded her entire life: an arranged marriage to a complete stranger—the crown prince of Alder.

But the match is more than political. Without it, her kingdom of Stonefall will fall to the merciless King Theros of Talos.

When Connor, an Alderian soldier sent by the prince to protect her, arrives at court, betrayal soon follows. Meredith and Connor are drawn together in ways that defy duty and threaten everything they’ve ever known.

Torn between a future she didn’t choose and a love she never expected, Meredith must decide: Will she fight for her heart… or sacrifice it to save her kingdom?

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ABOUT ME

Samantha Gillespie writes clean romantic fantasy. All the angst, none of the smut. She lives in Houston with her husband and their ever-expanding menagerie: cats who've crowned themselves royalty, a dog with strong opinions about the weather, and chickens whose sole mission is acquiring treats and destroying the yard. When she's not breaking hearts through fiction, she thrives on copious amounts of coffee, sharp wit, and the delicious tears of her devoted readers.