The Briar Bride (The Thorn Crown Chronicles)

By Mara Davisson

England fell in a single day. The old magic did not.

In 1066, Lady Aveline de Varenne is promised to a brutal Norman lord and expected to become one more prize of conquest. Then ravens descend upon her father's castle, a white rose blooms from blood, and an ancient prophecy names her the Briar Bride.

Her only hope is Cian ap Bran, a gray-eyed warden who has spent centuries keeping Britain's forgotten powers asleep-and refusing to love the mortals he will outlive. Pursued across Normandy and into a kingdom breaking beneath war, they face awakened standing stones, treacherous nobles, and a desire neither can afford.

But the Thorn King is rising beneath England's hills. He offers Aveline the one thing no mortal man will give her: power enough never to be owned again. To save herself-and perhaps Britain-she must choose between the dangerous warden who would die to keep her free and the ancient king who would burn a kingdom to possess her.

He does not want her dead.

He wants his bride.

A dark historical romantasy woven from forbidden desire, Celtic myth, and the Norman Conquest.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HDW11TXR
• ISBN13: 9798192153635
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.7" x 6.0"