The Oath Of Blood Roses

Charming and arrogant, elite Ashana, Calian, has one purpose: serve his prince. He has never considered breaking his oath...until her. Clover Celestia. The High Princess with a stubborn streak and a spark that incinerates his oath to ash. She's nothing he expected and everything he needed. Inch by inch, she slowly incinerates his defenses until he faces the truth-that all he wants is to mark his princess. Because she's his. His goddess. His Fated. Bound by the chains of her past, Princess Clover dreams of living freely. But when her parents are murdered, she's suddenly thrust into a war she never knew existed. As she navigates the choices-and betrayals-of her new role, she must also confront her desire for the man who forced her hand. The Ashana. Her protector. Her Fated. Unexpected and forbidden, theirs is a love that could destroy a realm... and doom them both.

Charming and arrogant, elite Ashana, Calian, has one purpose: serve his prince. He has never considered breaking his oath...until her. Clover Celestia. The High Princess with a stubborn streak and a spark that incinerates his oath to ash. She’s nothing he expected and everything he needed. Inch by inch, she slowly incinerates his defenses until he faces the truth—that all he wants is to mark his princess. Because she’s his. His goddess. His Fated. Bound by the chains of her past, Princess Clover dreams of living freely. But when her parents are murdered, she’s suddenly thrust into a war she never knew existed. As she navigates the choices—and betrayals—of her new role, she must also confront her desire for the man who forced her hand. The Ashana. Her protector. Her Fated. Unexpected and forbidden, theirs is a love that could destroy a realm... and doom them both.

Lost Crow Conspiracy is the dark, dazzling, action-packed sequel to Anna Arden's explosive societal debut in YA fantasy trilogy Blood Rose Rebellion. Sixteen-year old Anna Arden was once just the magically barren girl from an elite Luminate family. Now she has broken the Binding--and Praetheria, the creatures held captive by the spell, wreak havoc across Europe. Lower-class citizens have access to magic for the first time, while other Luminates lose theirs forever. Austria and Hungary are at odds once more. Anna Arden did not know breaking the Binding would break the world. Anna thought the Praetheria were on her side, content and grateful to be free from the Binding. She thought her cousin Matyas's blood sacrifice to the disarm the spell would bring peace, equality, justice. She thought her future looked like a society that would let her love a Romani boy, Gabor. But with the Monarchy breathing down her neck and the Praetheria intimidating her at every turn, it seems the conspiracies have only just begun. As threat of war sweeps the region, Anna quickly discovers she can't solve everything on her own. Now there's only one other person who might be able to save the country before war breaks out. The one person Anna was sure she'd never see again. A bandit. A fellow outlaw. A man known as the King of Crows. Matyas.

All study of the origins of social institutions must be based on what ethnology can tell us of the psychology of the lower races and on the primitive conceptions of human relations which are thus established. It is only in early modes of thought that we can find the explanation of ceremonies and systems which originated in primitive society; and, if ceremony and system are the concrete forms in which human relations are expressed, an examination, ethnological and psychological, of human relations, is indispensable for enquiry into human institutions.