One Dark Window
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Elspeth Spindle has survived by keeping one dangerous secret: there is a monster living inside her mind.
She calls him the Nightmare — an ancient, unpredictable spirit who protects her, whispers to her, and keeps her hidden in the mist-shrouded kingdom she calls home. But magic always demands a price, and Elspeth is beginning to understand that the thing protecting her may also be the thing consuming her.
When she crosses paths with a mysterious highwayman on a forest road, Elspeth is pulled into a dangerous world of treason, secrets, and forbidden magic. Her new ally is more than he appears: the King’s nephew, Captain of the Destriers, and a traitor risking everything to save the kingdom from the dark magic poisoning it.
Together, they must find twelve Providence Cards before Solstice — the only hope of breaking the kingdom’s curse. But as danger closes in and the tension between them grows harder to ignore, Elspeth’s greatest threat may not be the enemies hunting them.
It may be the Nightmare himself.
Because the monster in her head is getting stronger, and Elspeth may not be able to stop him from taking over completely.
Perfect for readers who love gothic fantasy, eerie forests, cursed magic, dangerous bargains, slow-burn tension, shadowy secrets, and heroines with darkness of their own.