The Prophecy of Thorns and Roses
Welcome to a world where having visions will get you locked up in an abbey, where understanding the language of demons will get you hanged, and-- for Avaline-- where falling in love is the most dangerous of all.
This is slow-burn romance across the trilogy and is aimed at adults but suitable for teens. Contains monster hunting and kissing.
AVALINE
Avaline Dearborn has always followed the rules, playing the dutiful princess for the people of Ullyria—except for her secret: she’s recently developed foreboding visions. When she slips away from her duties one day to seek answers from one such vision, she’s attacked by a monster—a particular creature that never appears in daylight and hasn't been seen since that fateful night when her brother went missing. Avaline soon discovers the monsters have destroyed a nearby village, sparking her resolve to do something. But her mother, Queen Berengaria, grows ever more estranged-- and has her own plans for Avaline.
Thrust into a hurried apprenticeship ceremony in the presence the Sisters of Roseneath, oracles from a mysterious abbey who are notorious for having replaced their eyes with roses, Avaline suspects they already know her secret. When the ceremony’s meditation reveals an even darker truth—her own mother views her as a threat to the throne and is plotting against her life—Avaline faces a harrowing choice. With the Sisters pressing her to join their order and her own mother poised to eliminate her, she makes the heartbreaking decision to flee the only home she’s ever known.
Her quest to uncover her missing brother and protect her people becomes more perilous by the day, pushing her toward a dangerous prophecy that threatens everything—and entangling her heart to a man with his own dark secrets.
AVALINE is the first book in The Prophecy of Thorns and Roses, a sweeping fantasy trilogy, where love and loyalty clash with the dark secrets of destiny. Avaline’s quest will test her courage, unearth her greatest fears, and ignite a slow-burning romance that’s as challenged as it is fated.
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