Where the Briar Moon Bleeds

A healer who carries other people's pain. A cursed prince bound to a kingdom of thorns. A blood-red moon rising over a vow that should never have been made.

Nerisse Veyr has spent her life healing the people of Mireholt, drawing sickness into her own body and paying the hidden cost no one else can see. But when Briarblight begins spreading faster than ever before, and her own brother falls under its black-veined curse, Nerisse is forced to answer a summons from the one man she has sworn to hate.

Prince Odran Vaelthorn rules from Blackroot Hall, a palace strangled by thorns and shadow. To the villages beyond the Red Briarwood, he is a monster, a cursed prince whose family's ancient vow has fed on women, blood, and silence for generations. But the man Nerisse finds is not the villain she expected. He is wounded, guarded, and desperate to end the curse without repeating the cruelty that created it.

As the briar moon rises, Nerisse and Odran must uncover the truth buried beneath the palace, the forest, and the graves of forgotten healer brides. But the curse knows her name. The thorns remember her blood. And breaking the vow may demand more than either of them is ready to give.

Dark, romantic, and hauntingly atmospheric, Where the Briar Moon Bleeds is a gothic romantasy of healing, sacrifice, forbidden tenderness, and the dangerous beauty of choosing love in a kingdom built on blood.