Bloodrite Chronicles
Slavic dark romantasy where the dead keep receipts. An exiled necromancer, a stolen royal ledger and the prince who betrayed her.
Slavic Dark Romantasy with a Necromancer Heroine and a Decade of Pining
Would you live in a world where magic can be traded like diamonds and bonds are forged in blood?
Welcome to the Bloodrite Chronicles trilogy.
If you have been looking for Slavic Dark Romantasy where the romance simmers under a murder investigation, and the heroine talks to corpses professionally, you found it.
Vidiana Toraven is a judicial death mage. Ten years ago, Prince Zoran Valentian chose her for his Bloodrite bond, then humiliated her in front of the court. She has served her exile as Warden of the Borderlands ever since, stripped of everything except scraps of her power, their unfinished bond and a grudge she keeps polished.
Then the town healer turns up dead, a stolen royal artefact surfaces under her investigation, and the prince she would rather bury walks back into her life.
The Bloodrite Chronicles is dark, epic, and plot-driven. Political intrigue, forbidden magic, and a succession crisis mix with taboo romance and a body count. The slow-burn romance between Vidiana and Zoran runs through all of it, ten years of unresolved history included. Enemies to lovers with an actual criminal record between them.
The world draws on Slavic paganism; if you’re new to it, you get to taste true Slavic mythology written by a native Polish author. Perun’s Night festivals, the Temple of Makosh, blood magic and forbidden Void Walking that carries a death sentence.
If you loved The Jasad Heir, The Foxglove King, or Crown me Dead and wanted more teeth and drier humour, start with Ledger of Souls.
Ledger of Souls
Releasing 27 January 2027
Then, the town’s healer turns up dead, and the investigation of her charred corpse leads Vidiana to the Royal Ledger—a stolen artefact that decides the line of succession.
So she does the only sensible thing and hides the damned book under her floorboards.
But the ledger of kings refuses to stay buried.
As warring factions converge, filling the morgue with bodies, her nightmare finds her—Prince Zoran Valentian. The scorned heir whose claim to the throne hangs on the Ledger’s choice.
His touch completes their forbidden bond, but she would rather kiss a corpse than give the book to the traitor who destroyed her. Yet when danger closes in, Zoran shields her with his body and asks her to trust him.
But trust could kill her. And Vidiana did not survive ten years in exile to burn with the kingdom that condemned her.
Vidiana and Zoran. Ten years of rage, one unfinished bond.
What Makes the Bloodrite Chronicles Different from Other Dark Romantasy
Most fantasy heroines discover their power in chapter one. Vidiana has spent a decade being punished for hers. Death magic is her trade, evidence is her religion and luck is for people who have never been betrayed in public. This is not a coming-of-age story. It is a coming-back story.
The romance carries an actual criminal record. Zoran did not just break her heart, he ended her life as she knew it, and she carries the confinement rune to prove it. When he returns, the enemies part of enemies to lovers is structural. The shift costs them both, and the pining has had ten years to ferment.
The Slavic paganism is lived-in, not decorative. Perun’s Night turns the plot. The Temple of Makosh hosts a bond dissolution ritual. Void Walking, the forbidden art of summoning souls of the dead, hangs over Vidiana as a death sentence. The magic system runs on blood, crystals and consequences.
The humour is dry and the stakes are wet. Murder investigation, succession crisis, smuggling rings and a morgue that keeps filling. Vidiana narrates it all with the gallows wit of a woman who has autopsied worse days than yours.
Trigger Warnings
We appreciate that everyone has a different level of sensitivity and may be triggered by different topics. It is up to your discretion whether you can handle the content in our books.
Ledger of Souls is dark fantasy for adult readers. It contains murder, corpses and forensic scenes, blood magic, violence, torture of the political variety and a heroine branded with a confinement rune. Dark, not grimdark, with dry humour throughout.
