A bell thief steals the Gargoyle Queen’s Heart-Stone and makes a cathedral city fall toward her, revealing a second heart inside her chest.

Every dawn erases Lyssa’s love for the minotaur she must kill, while he remembers forty-three loops, betrayals and deaths she cannot recall.

A siege engineer buys seven nights with the orc warlord she defeated and discovers his living scars map a city her kingdom erased.

A siren revives the drowned captain she killed for one hour at a time, and every borrowed heartbeat returns a memory condemning them both.

A pirate mutineer captures the kraken admiral starving her islands and accidentally earns the right to challenge the throne beneath the monsoon sea.

A pirate cartographer frees the sea witch she betrayed, then discovers the only route home moves across her former lover’s living skin.

A pirate queen and a siren king are chained by a Tide-Lock that drowns them on land whenever they drift more than one wave apart.

A fire thief invades the Snow Queen’s palace to reclaim her stolen heart, but the crystal in the vault belongs to the enemy she once loved.

Sabine marries the duke accused of killing seven wives, then opens his forbidden doors and finds each missing woman wearing a future version of her face.

A disgraced maestra hunts the Phantom sabotaging her theatre and discovers the masked killer is the lover she abandoned in a fire six years earlier.