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The Curse That Binds
The Curse That Binds
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He called her queen — then turned her world to ash.
Long before Selene Bowers ever set foot in Henbane Coven, there was Roxilana — a girl scraping by in Rome, trying not to draw attention in a city ruled by empire. Then a voice starts speaking inside her head, and she's sure she's losing her mind.
The voice belongs to Memnon, king of the Sarmatians — a man touched by the gods, bound by a curse he never asked for, and utterly certain that Roxilana is the other half of his soul. When her own power finally wakes up, he comes to claim her: a crown in one hand, a fate she never chose in the other. Within days she's queen of a people she barely understands, and wife to a man whose love runs just as hot as it does dangerous.
Magic always has a price, and as Roxilana learns exactly what Memnon's power costs — in blood, in loyalty, in her own sense of self — she has to decide whether to build a life at his side, or burn the whole thing down before it burns her first.
This is a complete standalone prequel to the Bewitched series, and can be read before Bewitched and Bespelled or picked up after — either way, longtime fans and new readers land in the same delicious mess of fate, magic, and a love neither of them saw coming.
Laura Thalassa grew up in Fresno, California with her nose in every fantasy and paranormal romance she could get her hands on, which pretty much guaranteed she'd end up writing them herself. She's the author of the Bargainer series, the Four Horsemen series, and the TikTok-beloved Bewitched world this book belongs to — stories built around fate, power, and love that refuses to play it safe. She now lives in Southern California with her husband and kids, where she splits her time between writing, the beach, and (by her own admission) hoarding chocolate for the apocalypse.
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