by Helen Scheuerer
Book 1 of 1: The Bookbinder's Bargain
Includes: Signed bookplate & Art Print
Release Date: September 22, 2026
Note: This is a pre-order item. Your order will ship on or around the book’s release date. If you’d like to purchase additional items, please place a separate order.
Order the DELUXE LIMITED EDITION of Kiss of the Black Flame now—only available on the first printing while supplies last! This stunning, collectible hardcover edition features stenciled edges, a hardcover jacket with foil effects, custom-illustrated endpapers, and a foil-stamped case.
From the internationally bestselling author of the Legends of Thezmarr series comes an epic romantasy trilogy about a gifted bookbinder and a cursed immortal general bound together by a dangerous magical bargain.
Some bargains are sealed with blood. Others with fire. The deadliest are sealed with a kiss...
Saige Grayson has always believed stories could heal—even when her own body refuses to. As the most promising bookbinder in the capital, she’s learned to work through chronic pain and crushing debt, restoring other people’s treasures while trying not to fall apart herself. But when the man she owes decides her rare talent is worth more than her payments, Saige is traded to the Azkari—an immortal race forged by the gods for war—and imprisoned in their ancient stronghold.
Her only chance of survival lies with Archer, a fallen Azkari general imprisoned beside her—cursed, dangerous, and impossible to ignore. He offers her a way out, and in return, Saige must help him retrieve and restore an ancient book. But the book is made of living magic, powerful enough to stop a great evil—or unleash it. And as Saige works with Archer, the tome begins to awaken something dark and dangerous—both in the realm and within her.
As their enemies close in and buried memories resurface, Saige and Archer must decide what they’re willing to sacrifice: their freedom, their fragile trust…or the spark that could ignite the world.
War
Torture
PTSD
Suicide ideation
Gaslighting
Threat of sexual violence
Body shaming
Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) for pain offset relief
Chronic pain
Reference to previous sexual assault
by Helen Scheuerer
Book 1 of 1: The Bookbinder's Bargain
Includes: Signed bookplate & Art Print
Release Date: September 22, 2026
Note: This is a pre-order item. Your order will ship on or around the book’s release date. If you’d like to purchase additional items, please place a separate order.
Order the DELUXE LIMITED EDITION of Kiss of the Black Flame now—only available on the first printing while supplies last! This stunning, collectible hardcover edition features stenciled edges, a hardcover jacket with foil effects, custom-illustrated endpapers, and a foil-stamped case.
From the internationally bestselling author of the Legends of Thezmarr series comes an epic romantasy trilogy about a gifted bookbinder and a cursed immortal general bound together by a dangerous magical bargain.
Some bargains are sealed with blood. Others with fire. The deadliest are sealed with a kiss...
Saige Grayson has always believed stories could heal—even when her own body refuses to. As the most promising bookbinder in the capital, she’s learned to work through chronic pain and crushing debt, restoring other people’s treasures while trying not to fall apart herself. But when the man she owes decides her rare talent is worth more than her payments, Saige is traded to the Azkari—an immortal race forged by the gods for war—and imprisoned in their ancient stronghold.
Her only chance of survival lies with Archer, a fallen Azkari general imprisoned beside her—cursed, dangerous, and impossible to ignore. He offers her a way out, and in return, Saige must help him retrieve and restore an ancient book. But the book is made of living magic, powerful enough to stop a great evil—or unleash it. And as Saige works with Archer, the tome begins to awaken something dark and dangerous—both in the realm and within her.
As their enemies close in and buried memories resurface, Saige and Archer must decide what they’re willing to sacrifice: their freedom, their fragile trust…or the spark that could ignite the world.
War
Torture
PTSD
Suicide ideation
Gaslighting
Threat of sexual violence
Body shaming
Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) for pain offset relief
Chronic pain
Reference to previous sexual assault
