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The Bone Throne: Brienna of the North: A Slow-Burn Anti-Maas Lycan-Fae Romantasy
The throne is carved from the bones of a queen who has been listening for a thousand years. She is about to speak.
Hvitr fjord. Year 1029.
Brienna of Hvitr is twenty-two, a second daughter, a widow at twenty-one, the granddaughter of a woman who refused the Bone Throne and lived to be eighty-nine. When the bone-seal arrives in her father's hall in the depths of the Long Dark, she does not refuse the summons.
She does not yet know that the throne is a contract older than the kingdom. She does not yet know that the Lycan-King Sigeard, possessive only in private because publicly possessive marks his queen for assassination, will love her in a register only she ever hears. And she does not yet know that the founding queen, sealed in the throne for ten centuries, has been waiting for a candidate who can answer back.
Brienna of the North is the first.
The reign will last twenty-eight years. The court will refine her. The founding queen will speak her name. And on a winter morning at the end of her reign, in a birthing chamber where a midwife with a half-moon scar receives a child marked the same way, the throne will speak aloud — for the first time since it was carved from a woman's bones — and the lineage forged across a thousand years will, at last, begin.
The Bone Throne is a slow Gothic, anti-Maas, literary Romantasy set in a Scandinavian-coded Northern realm — for readers who have outgrown the cosmic-eros lyceum and want a court with teeth, a Lycan-King who restraints, and a founding woman whose voice has been waiting one thousand years to answer.
Book One of the Five Houses of Tarmaroth saga.
Five queens. Five winters. One founding woman, sealed in bone.
arranged-marriage romantasy · slow burn · lycan king hero · scholarly heroine · anti-maas · court intrigue · throne-bound · founding queen sealed · multi-book saga · widow heroine (NOT virgin) · gothic romance · scandinavian fantasy
Hvitr fjord. Year 1029.
Brienna of Hvitr is twenty-two, a second daughter, a widow at twenty-one, the granddaughter of a woman who refused the Bone Throne and lived to be eighty-nine. When the bone-seal arrives in her father's hall in the depths of the Long Dark, she does not refuse the summons.
She does not yet know that the throne is a contract older than the kingdom. She does not yet know that the Lycan-King Sigeard, possessive only in private because publicly possessive marks his queen for assassination, will love her in a register only she ever hears. And she does not yet know that the founding queen, sealed in the throne for ten centuries, has been waiting for a candidate who can answer back.
Brienna of the North is the first.
The reign will last twenty-eight years. The court will refine her. The founding queen will speak her name. And on a winter morning at the end of her reign, in a birthing chamber where a midwife with a half-moon scar receives a child marked the same way, the throne will speak aloud — for the first time since it was carved from a woman's bones — and the lineage forged across a thousand years will, at last, begin.
The Bone Throne is a slow Gothic, anti-Maas, literary Romantasy set in a Scandinavian-coded Northern realm — for readers who have outgrown the cosmic-eros lyceum and want a court with teeth, a Lycan-King who restraints, and a founding woman whose voice has been waiting one thousand years to answer.
Book One of the Five Houses of Tarmaroth saga.
Five queens. Five winters. One founding woman, sealed in bone.
arranged-marriage romantasy · slow burn · lycan king hero · scholarly heroine · anti-maas · court intrigue · throne-bound · founding queen sealed · multi-book saga · widow heroine (NOT virgin) · gothic romance · scandinavian fantasy
551 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 8, 2026
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