THE LAST
PARADISE
A kingdom threatens rebellion, and a sleeping god shifts in the dark.
Death constricts around Ivie Salde.
Her favorite smuggler is missing an extremity, and her only reliable employer has earned a second bounty on his head.
So she’s already desperate when her oldest friend returns to Ayonira branded with the King’s mark. Should her friend die at war on the Ornin Sea, the depths will swallow his soul. To save him and his eternal life, Ivie stumbles past rationality and into insurrection.
When their last hope of escape is executed, Ivie is forced to Achrus, the palace above the clouds, to answer for crimes she would’ve committed if only granted more time.
But her arrival rouses the Gods’ tune, something silent to the Sacreds for an age.
Cursebreaker spreads through the palace’s serpentine halls, and the word locks Ivie into a gilded bargain she never intended to make.
When word of the King’s conscription spreads, and Ayonira threatens rebellion, Ivie’s forced to realize the fight beneath the cliffs isn’t the only one igniting.
For her once lifelike dreams become disturbingly tangible, and not even the golden prince suddenly vying for her heart can quell the ancient darkness stirring awake within her.
Soon, it will take everything Ivie has to untangle herself from the nest, lest the snakes swallow her whole.
THE LAST PARADISE explores the lines we’re willing to cross, the love we’re willing to lose, and the lies we tell when we think no one’s listening.
Unbreakable bargains.
Changing tides.
Inevitable awakenings.
That was the promise of a book, though. Learning could prove fatal if one did it right.
— Chapter 15: The Keeper of the Arsenal
primary tropes…
marriage of convenience, prophecies, slowww burn, gods & monsters, hurtxcomfort (as a treat)
for fans of…
NEIL GAIMAN, Victoria Aveyard’s RED QUEEN, Carissa Broadbent’s DAUGHTER OF NO WORLDS, and Tahereh Mafi’s THIS WOVEN KINGDOM