She was the villain of someone else's story. Now she's fighting to survive her own.
Three years after her humiliation at the Autumn Court, Silviana is fading. Stripped of her title, exiled to the borderlands, and infected by the Unmaking Curse - a slow erasure of memory, power, and self - she has built her last refuge from ice and spite. She expects to die there, forgotten. She does not expect the raven.
Mordant was the Autumn Queen's shadow once - her huntsman, her executioner, the knife she reached for when problems needed ending. He left that life behind for mortal cabbages and broken compasses, choosing repair over ruin. Now the Queen has called him back with a single impossible task: find Silviana. Save her if she can be saved. End her if she cannot.
He refuses the second part.
What begins as a bargain between two damaged exiles becomes something neither of them was prepared for. As they race through treacherous borderlands to find a cure before Silviana's memories - and her identity - dissolve entirely, Mordant discovers that the cold, cruel woman the courts fear has never once been loved without condition. And Silviana discovers, for the first time, what it might feel like to be saved rather than used.
But breaking the Unmaking Curse requires a sacrifice that will cost Silviana everything she has spent her immortal life trying to protect - and choosing it will mean trusting a man who was sent to kill her.
Heart of Thorns is a slow-burn enemies-to-lovers romantasy about redemption, transformation, and the terrifying, necessary choice to let someone see who you truly are beneath the ice.