You fell in love with Kyit and Harrow in Peppermint and Ash. Continue the Song of the Broken with Elen's tale.

She was raised in silk.
He was forged in ruin.
When the tower fails her, the mountain keeps her.

In Emberlyn -- the Black Jewel of the Empire -- Elen Ririen has lived her whole life as a possession. Daughter of a Blood Lord. Bride in a contract. A songbird in a golden cage. Every breath, every step, every word is meant to serve the Empire.

The night she tries to flee, her world shatters. A storm. A fall. A creature's claws closing around her.

But instead of death, she finds herself carried away into the mountains by Torlax -- a being feared in every story, part man, part beast, all shadow and fire. His halls are broken stone and ash, his eyes older than empires, his silence heavier than chains.

Elen should be terrified. Instead, for the first time in her life, she feels free.

In Torlax's domain she discovers ruin can be more beautiful than marble, and a monster's touch more tender than a lord's command. He shows her the sky beyond her tower. She teaches him the language of laughter and longing.

But freedom has a cost. The Empire will not forgive her disappearance. Knights climb the mountain with steel and oathfire, sent to drag her back. And Elen must decide: return to the world that owned her, or risk everything for the love that remakes her into something new.

The mountain is crumbling.
The Empire is watching.
And the monster she should fear may be the only one who truly sees her.

Lavender and Iron is a lush, gothic romantasy for readers of Carissa Broadbent, Hannah Whitten, and Sarah J. Maas. Featuring:

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Beauty and the Beast reimagined in shadows and firelight

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A heroine who chooses freedom even when the world calls it treason

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A beast who learns tenderness and hope through her defiance

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Forbidden soulbonding, sensual slow-burn tension, and a storm of knives, politics, and longing

The mountain keeps her. The question is -- will she choose to stay?

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• Publication Date: January 28, 2026
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• Print Length: 294 Pages
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