To Break a Golden Throne: A Shadow Court Dark Romantasy

By A. R. Lenahan

A queen made of glass. A guardian forged in shadow. One final bell to break the throne that owns them all.

Aveline has survived the cage, the wall, and the theft of her own name.

Now she rules the New Shadow Court as living law, a sovereign made of mercury-dark glass and sentient obsidian. Behind her wall, the broken and betrayed are offered what the Radiant Court never allowed: the right to choose their own debts, their own loyalties, and their own future.

But High Queen Maelis has returned with a weapon Aveline cannot simply crush.

Not chains. Not a claim. Not another attempt to own her daughter.

A trial.

At the border, Maelis gathers the grieving, the abandoned, and the wounded, turning true stories into a moral siege against the New Shadow Court. Every accusation sends a fracture through the obsidian. Every bell of the Purification Rite brings Radiant fire closer. And every strike against the wall forces Valerius, Aveline's husband and Anchor, to absorb the heat through a graft that is slowly turning his body to violet crystal.

Aveline and Valerius have fought monsters, courts, curses, and each other.

Now they must face the rot beneath their own foundation.

To save the court they built, they must risk the one thing that made it strong: the wall itself. Aveline must step beyond her perfect defense and put the fae realm on trial, exposing the laws that turned daughters into weapons, marriages into cages, and sacrifice into sovereignty.

If they fail, the Radiant Queen will burn their sanctuary to ash.

If they win, they may finally create a realm where no soul can be owned by bloodline, crown, bargain, or debt.

The final bell is tolling.

And the golden throne is ready to break.

Perfect for readers who love dark fae romantasy, shadow courts, morally gray rulers, high-stakes magic, obsessive devotion, court intrigue, forced bonds transformed by choice, and epic fantasy romance finales.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GZWDRQGW
• ISBN13: 9798195907679
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"