The Half King

Melissa Landers

eBook - 2024

"An engaging adventure and a promising beginning to a new fantasy series." —Kirkus"Landers (Starfall) brings a mythic fairy tale aesthetic to this new adult romantasy, crafting a complex world and vivid characters." —Publishers WeeklyA king by day. Shadow by night...The Great Betrayal changed everything for the Allied Realm. Long ago, the kingdom's noble houses rose up against the goddess... and for their treachery, the firstborn of each noble family was cursed.One with perilous beauty. One with destructive knowledge. One with insatiable bloodlust.But the royal house Mortara received the worst affliction of all. For while the king exists during the day, he fades into nothingness at night...until his twenty-first... birthday, when he will be lost to the shadows forever.Now an acolyte has arrived at court. Like all the second-born children of the Allied Realm, she's destined to... more