Beauty and the Beast meets Serpent and the Wings of Night steeped in Norse Lore in this brand-new romantasy series from the USA Today bestselling author of the Kingdom of Crows series.***HE DEFIED HIS PACK TO LOVE MEI had two childhood dreams: to shift into a wolf, and to win Nordin Stormsson’s forbidden heart.My first dream shattered the day my mother confessed I wasn’t a shifter, but a valkyrie-stranded in a land far from my people. My second was crushed when Nordin rejected me…only to claim another as his mate.So, I ran. Heartbroken, I crossed beyond the wards in search of my birth clan. But freedom came at a cost. Dragons, vampyrs, and enemy wolves stalked me through the dark. They weren’t the only ones who came after me, though.Nordin came too. He seized me before they could, stealing my body and then my heart.For a time, I dared to dream once more, to imagine a future with Nordin in the land of ice and wolves.Until I uncovered his most closely guarded secret.A truth about my past.One that ruined us all.Book 1 of The Empress of Thorns series takes readers into a magical world of dragons, vampyrs, warring wolf clans and pulse-pounding forbidden romance.***TropesRomantasyForbidden RomanceWolf ShiftersParanormal RomanceR+ HeatAlso by Olivia Wildenstein:The Kingdom of CrowsHouse of Beating WingsHouse of Pounding HeartsHouse of Striking OathsHouse of Shifting TidesHouse of Burning Frost