Immortal Crown

Copyright © 2023 by Elizabeth Brown All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review. Created with Vellum ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Torri Acknowledgements For everyone who said these books were too spicy. We made them spicier for you xo Beth Acknowledgements I’m not even remotely sorry. We all know you’re reading these books for the smut and not the plot. So…LET THEM HAVE SMUT. WHAT’S COME BEFORE… Our journey in Blood Crown begins with Ashera, a succubus queen who rose to power by overthrowing the old reign who ruled on fear and slavery. Ashera successfully staged this coup with her long time friend, and captain of the army, Mal. Unfortunately, during the rebellion, Ashera’s mate – Visa – was killed. Ashera’s rule begins with the kings from other kingdoms coming to pledge their loyalties and to make alliances. Through these visits, she is introduced to her mates. Ambrose, the vampire prince. Caspian, the fae prince. Jacobi, the virginal angel king. And even her best friend, Mal, turns out to be one of her mates. But Ashera’s reign is not smooth sailing. She is the first queen Dunya has ever seen, and not only is she a woman, but she freed the human slaves. She made a lot of enemies, and the mate group soon realize that someone wants Ashera dead. Tomas, Ambrose’s father and the King of Masas, is leading a rebellion of his own against the succubus queen. A journey to Masas leaves the group empty handed, and an attack on Ashera’s life leaves her presumed dead. They travel down to Qamar, thought to be harboring Tomas, only to find a coup being led on the King of Qamar as they arrive. Ashera quickly realizes that two of the shifters – the new Queen of Qamar, Winta, and her general Thorne, are also her mates, as the rebellion burns the old palace to the ground. We pick up in War Crown immediately after Blood Crown ends. Our mate group has found safety in Thorne’s home, and are using Ashera’s presumed death to their advantage. The plan is to split up, get Caspian’s father and the Fae army on their side, to find out where Sahira stands, and to track down Tomas – wherever he may be hiding. Before they can leave, an army from Sahira arrives, and King Judah threatens them with war. The shifter army takes care of the witch army with help from Ashera, and King Judah is taken into custody. Caspian and Jacobi travel to Juniya, where they realize his father was helping the rebellion all along, and are given the Fae army to take to Masas. The rest of the group travels to Masas, with King Judah in tow. They are met with a battle at the gates to the capital, but with Tomas nowhere in sight. King Judah spots an opportunity to make his move, but at the last moment, a mystery man shows up to behead the witch king. Except he announces that wasn’t the witch king, and our beloved Ashera is not just a succubus, but CONTENTS Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Epilogue - 15 Years Later About the Authors 1 DAIMON Five Thousand Years Ago. “Jareth! Get Ashera out of here! Now!” My scream was lost in the cacophony around us. The ringing of steel against steel, the screams, the battle cries. “Jareth!” “I’m not leaving you, Daimon.” Ashera’s face was set in a determined mask. Gods, how I loved that look. Usually. Right now, it made me want to rage. We were losing. Our allies were being cut down left and right, slaughtered like animals. I knew that if Ashera was captured, her fate would be far worse than those falling here on the battlefield. Knowing how our enemies operated, I would be forced to watch whatever horrors they concocted unfold. “We both know what will happen if Keres finds you!” I shouted. “I’m not about to let her get her hands on you. Not now.” “No,” she asserted. “We stay together.” Jareth, fucking finally, slid to a stop beside us. He was covered head to toe in blood and grinning like the lunatic he was. I wanted to throttle him. Our mate was in danger, in the middle of a fucking battlefield, and he was off having himself the time of his life killing things. Fucking figured. It was going to be hard enough convincing Ashera to flee, getting Jareth on board as well… “She’s right, Daimon.” Jareth slapped me on the shoulder, causing me to grunt. “We stay together. If one of us goes down, we all go down.” My roar ripped through the area as I turned and grabbed what was left of Jareth’s shirt. “Don’t you get it?” I screamed in his face. “She is the only thing that matters! If we lose her–” “I know very well what will happen if we lose her.” Jareth roared back. “Don’t you ever for one fucking second think that I don’t.” We stood there, staring at one another, our chests heaving in our rage. It seemed Jareth wasn’t playing for once, that he actually knew the stakes. I certainly hoped he felt the walls closing in around us as I did. Felt the fear as it slithered its way around his throat like a noose, the panic blurring the edges of his vision and causing his chest to constrict. While it was true, we’d made a vow to die together, I couldn’t shake the feeling that death would be a mercy for all that we’d done. And