Claimed by Flame - Adeline Hartley

The Council ordered him to bond with her.

He said no.

Aryssa Flamehart is the first woman ever to hold Ignara - and the Seal that keeps her realm from burning is dying in her hands. When a storm-caller from the Northern Territories arrives uninvited, she wants nothing from him but his magic. Fire and storm have not stood in the same room in eight hundred years, and she has spent three years proving she needs no one.

Evric Stormborne came for an alliance, and for the children dying of void corruption in a tower back home. He needs Ignara’s fire more than he can afford to admit.

He wants her more than that, and will not say so.

Together they manage something no realm has done since the world tore open - and her Council moves to own it before the night is out.

Aryssa is prepared for that. She has been prepared for that her entire life.

What she is not prepared for is the one man in that chamber who refuses to let her be given away to anyone - including him.

Some bonds are written in the stars. This one was decided in the dark.

Tropes: enemies to allies to lovers · fated bond refused · forced proximity · touch-averse heroine and the patient man who won’t push · he falls first · arranged bonding · morally gray antagonist · court politics with teeth · elemental magic · found family · slow burn

Heat: sensual and emotional. On the page, never graphic.

The Sealed Realms is a trilogy and is best read in order:

Book One - Bound by Shadow · Kael & Lena
Book Two - Claimed by Flame · Aryssa & Evric
Book Three - Crowned by Blood · Selene & Jaxon

Each book follows one couple to their happily ever after. The story of the three Seals concludes in Crowned by Blood.