The Crown of Moonlight

<p><strong>She saves his life with forbidden magic. He falls first-one fierce yearning day at a time.</strong></p><p></p><p>Flora Domhnall is the last of her line her Highland clan's only defence in a war neither side can win. When she finds a dying immortal warrior in her woods healing him is a terrible risk. But if he dies on her land her clan will pay the price.</p><p></p><p><em>She makes a decision she's likely to regret.</em></p><p></p><p>Chyr has spent four centuries bound by oaths carved into his flesh-oaths that read his every thought. Violence and sacrifice are all he knows and Flora's brave impossible kindness breaks him open.</p><p></p><p>Hunted across the burning Highlands they have no choice but to rely on each other. The longing grows harder to resist with every mile they share a saddle every sacrifice made in silence and every night they guard each other in the dark.</p><p></p><p><em>He's already fallen. She's fighting not to fall.</em></p><p></p><p>Then the ancient magic of the Cailleach Queens awakens in Flora-and marks her as something the world hasn't seen in four hundred years.</p><p></p><p><strong><em>And Chyr's oaths may demand he destroy the one person he can't bear to lose.</em></strong></p><p></p><p><strong>For her he'll try to break his oaths-even if it kills him.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong><em>From award-winning author Martina Boone TCOM is perfect for readers who love the sweeping Highland romance of Diana Gabaldon's Outlander and the dark aching magic of Rachel Gillig's One Dark Window.</em></strong></p><p></p><p>★ <strong>WHAT READERS ARE SAYING</strong> ★</p><p></p><p>I COULD NOT STOP reading. The slow burn! THE TENSION! THE YEARNING!! The romance was just so good I was on the floor. The Scottish lore is incredible and the world building sublime. The female lead is like a badass fierce clan leader ...and the MC is an immortal warrior in a kilt yes you'll thank me later. -BookTok Reviewer</p><p></p><p>As a massive fan of Outlander I went into this story hoping for a touch of sweeping romance aching emotion and lush world-building-and I was not disappointed...the same sense of fate-touched love and that slow simmering tension between two characters who feel destined for each other. -ARC Reviewer</p><p></p><p>I didn't expect a Highland fantasy to feel this haunting and tender but it swept me away. Boone gives us Flora Domhnall a courageous woman caught between loyalty to her clan and the dangerous pull of an immortal warrior...a slow-burn romance wrapped in rich history and magic. -Librarian/Netgalley Review</p><p></p><p>Windswept moors crumbling castles and an undercurrent of old-world magic that hums through every scene...Readers feel both the mortal cost of Flora's courage and the immortal ache of Chyr's duty. Their chemistry is beautifully rendered-equal parts tenderness and turmoil-never rushed always earned...As romantic as it is epic. -ARC Reviewer</p><p></p><p><strong>★ TROPES & THEMES ★</strong></p><p></p><p>✨ Emotionally dangerous slow-burn romance ✨ Immortal warrior who falls first ✨ Fierce heroine with agency ✨ Forced proximity and yearning ✨ Forbidden Celtic elemental magic vs. ancient oaths ✨ Loyal animal companions (Shadehounds) ✨ Subverted mystical coronation ✨ Highland Jacobite-inspired historical setting ✨ Dual POV (mortal + immortal perspectives) ✨ Slow burn to heat ✨ One epic forbidden love (no love triangle) ✨ Fated mates energy without the trope</p><p></p><p><strong><em>Book One of The Five Crowns series.</em></strong></p><p></p><p><strong>Contains explicit intimate scenes and violence in the context of war. Please check warnings. Uses UK English spelling.</strong></p>