RADIANT THREADS

second chance · slow burn · forced proximity · magical bonds · court intrigue · touch her and die · he left her to save her

Three years ago, Ivy’s volatile power killed a queen, erased magic from the realm, and trapped the island kingdom of Nayara in eternal winter.

She’s been hiding ever since.

When the crown discovers her, Ivy is dragged back to the palace — and tied by a forbidden oathbond to the man who shattered her heart. Crown Prince Zoli once swore to love her forever, but he abandoned her when she needed him most.

Now Ivy wants only one thing: to save her younger sister from the soul-devouring mist surrounding the kingdom. But when she begins to see radiant threads connecting her to the people she loves, she realizes the magic everyone believed was gone may not be gone at all.

And the strongest thread leads straight to Zoli.

As buried secrets surface and the impossible connection between them strengthens, Ivy must decide whether she can trust the prince who broke her — and whether the power she’s spent years fearing will destroy her or save them all.

  • “Everything with Zoli gets locked away before it can bleed.”

    Chapter 18

  • “It tastes like summer in a never-ending winter. Like festival lights. Like grief cracked open.”

    Chapter 2

  • “The mist coils behind him. The palace waits somewhere beyond the trees. His father’s oathbond tightens around his throat. And still, he kneels in the snow next to me, silent and ruined and there.”

    Chapter 23

  • “He discarded me like I was nothing. Then I broke the world. Now he’s found us.”

    Chapter 3

  • “Touching him feels like stepping over a border I drew with blood.”

    Chapter 25

  • “They remember love like an alchemist remembers a formula after the flame has gone out. Ingredients intact. Reaction gone.”

    Chapter 26

  • “I have no proof except a thread no one else can see. It’s enough.”

    Chapter 9

  • “He says my name like it’s been pulled from somewhere ruined.”

    Chapter 31

  • “He tastes like summer. Like home. Like a door I locked and locked and locked until I forgot there was anything on the other side.”

    Chapter 34

  • “The snow has melted around us in a wide circle. Dark soil is exposed on the ground, wet and rich, and the smell of thawed earth rises around us. A ten-foot radius of spring. After three years of winter, the grass has the audacity to look pleased with itself.”

    Chapter 34

  • “He freezes into duty. She burns into action. Both of them are going to kill me.”

    Chapter 48

  • “Seeing him hurts. Him seeing me hurts more.”

    Chapter 1

  • “I don’t remember, just then, that we were ever apart.”

    Chapter 31

  • “I know all the little ways he turns pain into stone.”

    Chapter 29

  • “And ivy survives. Cold. Bad soil. People tearing it down. It grows back anyway.”

    Chapter 25

  • “Windows glowed along the street. Small, stubborn squares of gold in all that cold.”

    Chapter 24

  • “A small life. A safe life, if safe means lonely and frightened and half-starved of myself.”

    Chapter 46