The Crown of Rust: A Dark Romantasy of Deadly Trials, Rusted Magic, and a Reluctant Prince (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798897230402)

She'll bleed for one wish. He was built to make sure no one ever wins it.

In the poisoned slums beneath Chrome City, the Rust gets into everything-the pipes, the air, the blood. Sara has watched it turn her sister's veins to metal while the people above hoard the only cure.

Once a year, the Crown offers one impossible mercy: survive the Iron Trials and earn a wish. No one from the Slags has ever come home. Sara enters anyway.

Prince Dorian is already half machine, grafted with living metal and raised as the king's perfect weapon. His orders are simple: keep the Trials controlled, keep the crowds entertained, and ensure the winner never threatens the Crown.

Then Sara refuses to die on schedule.

When her defiance shatters the arena's script, Dorian must step into the sand. Hatred becomes reluctant fascination, then a dangerous alliance neither can afford. The truth is worse than either imagined: the Rust is not a disease, and the throne is feeding on the people it claims to protect.

To save her sister, Sara may have to trust the prince she should want dead. To destroy the Crown, Dorian may have to betray the only family he has ever known.

Together, they can tear down the city in the sky-or become its next sacrifice.

The Crown of Rust is Book One of Crown & Rust, an adult, dual-POV dark romantasy with deadly trials, a morally gray cyborg prince, slow-burn enemies-to-lovers tension, class rebellion, and open-door spice.