Arwyn Ashbourne
Arwyn Ashbourne writes lush, dangerous sapphic romantasy about powerful women, forbidden desire, treacherous courts, and promises capable of changing everything. Her stories blend political intrigue, high-stakes magic, intimate romance, and heroines who know surrender means something entirely different when it is freely chosen.
The Court of Hollow Vows Series
A Vow Made in Shadow is a lush sapphic romantasy about a woman who can sense fractures in magical vows and the dangerously powerful oathsworn woman ordered to bind her.
A Crown of Hollow Promises follows two magically gifted women whose arranged marriage exposes a centuries-old secret when their sacred wedding vow refuses to bind—and forces them to decide whether the most powerful promise is the one the Crown demands or the one they choose for themselves.
A Pact Written in Thorns binds two women through an ancient Blood Vow—and reveals that the Crown built its power by removing the one thing vowcraft was always meant to require: reciprocity.
A Court Without Mercy follows a woman who survives by becoming anyone and the woman who can always recognize her, as they uncover a forbidden form of vowcraft capable of breaking the Crown’s carefully manufactured obedience.
A Queen of Unkept Oaths is a lush F/F romantasy about the woman powerful enough to save the Crown, the woman determined to destroy it, and the dangerous truth that a promise freely given has always been stronger than one compelled.