Throne of Ash and Wanting. The Hollow Crown Series, #1

She was hired to betray him. He knew from the start. Neither of them expected this. Seraphina Voss lost everything when her father was executed for treason he didn't commit - her title, her home, her family's name. Two years later, the empire's spymaster offers her a deal: infiltrate the Hollow Crown Palace, get close to Crown Prince Caelum Drevholt, steal evidence of his conspiracy, and everything she lost will be returned.
The job is simple. Until she discovers the conspiracy she was sent to expose doesn't exist. Until the prince looks at her across a library table and tells her, with the calm of someone who has already decided, that he knows exactly what she is. Until the choice becomes: the name she came for, or the man who asked her to stay anyway. In the hidden passages behind palace walls, in the silence between truth and lies, Seraphina will discover that some people are worth choosing even when you know the cost.
And some choices, once made, change everything. For readers who love morally grey heroines, perceptive love interests who see through you, and slow-burn romance where trust is earned one impossible choice at a time. THE HOLLOW CROWN SERIES Romance with teeth. Courts are beautiful and dangerous.