Star-Burial Princess

Princess Willa Thornwick can take grief out of a human heart and bury it among the stars. Every time she saves someone, however, another piece of her own memory disappears.In Lythmere, Star-Burial is celebrated as sacred mercy. Willa has spent her life smiling through the ceremonies, drawing unbearable sorrow from the grieving before it turns them Hollow. She knows the cost: forgotten songs, vanished moments, even pieces of the people she once loved. She has always believed that sacrifice was simply the price of saving her kingdom.Then King Noah Ashborne arrives.He does not applaud Willa's miracle. He remembers the grief she removes.Marked by a strange royal power, Noah carries memories that Star-Burial was supposed to erase forever. He knows the names of the forgotten dead. He hears the last words buried in Lythmere's glittering sky. And he forces Willa to ask the one question her kingdom cannot afford: What if their beautiful salvation has never truly destroyed anything?When buried grief begins falling back from the stars, Willa and Noah are pushed into a dangerous alliance. Worse, their kingdoms are considering a royal marriage between them. She finds him infuriating, relentless, and far too willing to challenge everything she was raised to believe. He sees the wounds behind her perfect smile-and refuses to let anyone call her suffering a sacred duty.But the closer they come to the truth, the more dangerous their connection becomes. Willa must choose how much of herself she is willing to surrender for a kingdom that has always needed her sacrifice. And if Star-Burial keeps taking her memories, how long before she forgets the one man determined to remember for her?A sweeping slow-burn fantasy romance filled with royal intrigue, memory magic, enemies-to-lovers tension, dangerous secrets, emotional sacrifice, and a princess fighting to become more than the miracle everyone expects her to be.