A Curse of Shadows and Ice

By C.A. Maura and Catharina Maura

Book Overview

From BookTok sensation and USA Today bestselling author Catharina Maura comes a spicy and enchanting Beauty and the Beast retelling featuring a cursed emperor, a princess who possesses forbidden magic, and a marriage that could save them all.

"A lush, hypnotic romantasy from the pen of a master storyteller."--Thea Guanzon, New York Times bestselling author

Arabella has always been the princess no one notices. Then the most powerful man in the realm, known for his ruthlessness and cruelty, demands her hand in marriage. Too late, she learns that he and his land are cursed . . . and now she's married to a beast.

There's everything to fear about Felix Osiris: his powerful alchemy, his mercurial temper, and the shadows that seem to slither through his very blood. Arabella's life depends on playing the role her new husband expects. She'll pretend she's strong. She'll pretend she's brave. But nothing about her magnetic husband is what she expected, and her feelings for him begin to turn from bitterness to burning desire. Yet not even his shadows can obscure the truth: that the Shadow Emperor is truly a monster . . . and so is she.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1538772981
• ISBN13: 9781538772980
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.2" x 7.9"