The Lady's Punishment. The Queen's Menagerie, #1

Lady Alina believed her performance for Queen Seravine would win favor. Instead, one careless remark delivers her into the Queen's most merciless punishment. Stripped of privilege and marched into a hidden chamber deep within the castle, Alina discovers a world unlike any she has ever seen - a vast forest enclosed by stone, a Menagerie where magic and monsters are bound for the Queen's amusement. From the shadows emerges Tharros, a towering figure crowned with antlers, his golden eyes burning with hunger and grief.
Once a god of the wilds, now imprisoned by Seravine's power, he has only one task: to provide the Queen with a spectacle. Bound by living vines and displayed before a balcony of glittering courtiers, Alina finds herself the focus of both monster and monarch. What begins as punishment becomes something more dangerous: a surrender that tangles shame with exhilaration, humiliation with aching desire.
Under Seravine's watchful gaze, Alina's body and spirit are tested until she is remade for the Queen's delight. The Lady's Punishment is the first book in The Queen's Menagerie, a spin-off of the Court of Desire series. Where the Court revels in decadent pleasures between mortals, the Menagerie thrusts its heroines into encounters with beings not entirely human - ancient, powerful, and impossibly tempting.
Each volume can be read as a standalone, but together they reveal the breadth of Queen Seravine's domain: a realm where power is spectacle, desire is ritual, and surrender is inevitable. Darkly indulgent and unapologetically erotic, The Lady's Punishment invites readers into a world where boundaries blur, monsters command, and the Queen always gets what she desires.