Tag: court
In a world hidden from ordinary humans, ghosts, witches, demons, and cursed beings are not judged by fate-they are judged by law.
Adrian Elias Vale is one of the few attorneys licensed to practice in the Spirit Court, a mysterious tribunal that exists between Heaven and Hell. His clients are the dead, the forgotten, and the supernatural beings whom everyone else has already condemned.
His creed is simple:
"No soul should be judged without being heard."
Assigned to every case is Cassian Noctis, the last Balance Keeper-an ancient being older than angels and demons whose duty is to preserve the balance of the afterlife without favor or mercy.
One believes every soul deserves a second chance.
The other believes every verdict must remain impartial.
As impossible cases unfold and an ancient conspiracy begins to unravel, Adrian and Cassian discover that the greatest threat isn't a demon... or even Hell itself.
Someone is rewriting the laws that govern the afterlife.
Now, the attorney who defends lost souls and the last guardian of Balance must decide whether justice is worth risking Heaven, Hell... and their own hearts.
In Ashford County, Pennsylvania, the law is supposed to be impartial. People are not.
Evrin is learning that much the hard way.
Set against the quiet authority of courtrooms, law-school corridors, and the unspoken hierarchies that govern who belongs and who doesn't, this novel follows a young man navigating ambition, vulnerability, and desire in a world that demands composure above all else. What begins as an ordinary social gathering spirals into a private reckoning-one shaped by power, restraint, and the dangerous pull of being seen too clearly by the wrong person.
As Evrin struggles to define his boundaries, he is drawn into an unsettling intimacy that blurs the line between choice and coercion, attraction and control. Every interaction leaves a mark. Every silence carries weight. And beneath the polished surface of legal professionalism, something far more human-and far more volatile-waits to surface.
This is a story about what the law cannot regulate: want, fear, consent, and the cost of yielding-even briefly-to someone who believes they already own the outcome.
Quietly tense, emotionally charged, and deeply intimate, this novel explores how power operates not just in courtrooms, but in private spaces where no rules are written and no witnesses remain.
After three years' imprisonment for high treason, a jaded princess is given one last chance of freedom through an arranged marriage to a foreign prince, but she quickly learns that she has traded one cage for another.
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Princess Alexandra has spent three years imprisoned in a tower for the crime of high treason, awaiting her execution. On the night she is to die, a reprieve comes: rather than be executed, she will be exiled to the far-away duchy of Selica to marry a foreign prince. It is a second chance. Her last chance.
But in Selica, Princess Alexandra quickly realizes that she has traded one cage for another. The people of Selica despise her. Prince Marisuz, her husband, cares nothing for her. And the palace is full of dark secrets and dangerous conspiracies, which threaten not just Alexandra, but the home she can never return to.
A standalone novel with Prosecutor Aubrielle Baxter's Point of View
