C. F. E. Black

Dragons are only supposed to choose the godborn I was raised in the citys bottomside, where girls like me learn to keep their heads down, their knives close, and their dreams small. But when a dangerous, illegal dragon chooses me, its bond proves that the godborn have been lying. Now Im offered...

To break his curse, he must break her. Talia's dream of avoiding marriage to her domineering landlord comes crashing to the ground the night her family's ticket out of poverty is stolen and sold by the wicked landlord himself. Now, Talia will be forced to marry him and give up the future she...

He's the prince of shadows, bound to do the will of his court. She's about to shatter the darkness. On Zara's twentieth birthday, she expects to be married to the love of her life, not stolen by the Shadow Prince and hurled into a world where death awaits her at every turn. For one year, she is...

Madness comes to all who enter the Labyrinth. All Vera wants is to survive her wedding day and fade into the rhythms of a normal life. No easy task for a quarter-mage like her. But her worst fears come to pass when her faulty magic once again lets her down—only this time, she's branded a...