A Dark Romantic Fantasy
The mountain has two seats, two anchors, and one blank silver disc no one has ever been able to explain.
Dain survived the curse that turned the princes of the Twelve Houses into dragons-but he did not come back unchanged. Magic no longer recognizes him. Wards ignore him. Ancient tests give no answer. For years, everyone has treated what happened to him as another kind of loss.
Then Dain meets Joss Camm.
Joss runs a relief store in the lower city, caring for the people whose wounds from the Cut still refuse to heal. She has no patience for princes, pity, or carefully softened truths. What she needs is someone who can move barrels, drink terrible tea, and show up again next Thursday.
Dain can do that.
But when he discovers that his strange absence from magic may be the only thing capable of stopping the power beneath the mountain, being useful suddenly carries a terrible price. The ancient seal is changing. The forgotten third seat is waiting. And something that has watched the Twelve Houses for four hundred years has finally begun to look back.
As Dain and Joss grow closer, both must decide where sacrifice ends and choice begins-and whether loving someone means saving them from their fate or standing beside them while they choose it.
THE THIRD SEAT is Book Two of The Twelve Crowns, a dark, atmospheric romantic fantasy series filled with cursed royalty, dragons, ancient magic, slow-burn romance, family secrets, and love built not on destiny-but on the choice to keep showing up.