Bound by the Shadow Court

They turned a fae court to ash in front of her. Then three shadow lords claimed her as theirs. Elara Voss came to the Hall of Veils for one reason: to catalog forbidden artifacts and earn a year’s salary in a single night. She thought she was a mortal scholar hired to sort through ancient records. She was wrong. When the Hollowborn descend on the revel and turn fae nobles to ash, Elara’s hidden ward shatters—and with it, the lie she has lived her whole life. She is a Heartbloom. Rare. Powerful. Hunt-worthy. Worse, she is the only witness who saw the architect behind the massacre. Now the Shadow Court has taken her. Now she belongs to the three lords of the Shadow Court. Aelindor, the cold and merciless strategist whose power feels like winter sharpened into a blade. Rorvan, the brutal battle-lord with violence in his hands and possession in his blood. Kaelith, the elegant spymaster whose brilliant mind hides secrets as dangerous as any weapon. They say Elara is no mere mortal. She is a witness, a weapon, and a Heartbloom the realms will kill to possess. A prize. A liability. A living key to a war already beginning. To keep her alive, the Shadow Court gives the fae world a story it will believe: a triad bond between three ruling lords and the one Heartbloom who could complete it. Publicly, Elara is claimed. Privately, she is bound to a dangerous bargain with three ruthless fae who need her memory, her mind, and her silence if they want to destroy the enemy hunting them all. But the longer Elara remains inside the Shadow Spire, the more her hidden power wakes… and the more impossible it becomes to tell what is strategy, what is survival, and what is something far more dangerous. Selvain wants her silenced. The Hollowborn want her broken. And if Elara cannot help the Shadow Court bring down the man behind the slaughter, she won’t just lose her freedom. She’ll become the final piece in a war built from shadow, void, and blood. BOUND BY THE SHADOW COURTS is Book 3 in the Wicked Courts series: a dark fae why choose fantasy romance filled with possessive shadow lords, forced proximity, fake bond tension, court intrigue, hidden magic, deadly politics, and scorching heat. One heroine. Three ruthless fae. No choosing.