Chronicles of the Kingdom of the Dead, Book One
The Ash Marriage
Marry the King of the Dead. Or watch two worlds fall.
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Start at the Beginning of the Kingdom of the Dead
The Ash Marriage is Book One in Chronicles of the Kingdom of the Dead. If you are new to the series, this is where Seraphina Ashborne’s descent begins: with black veins, a forbidden crossing, and a marriage no living woman was meant to survive.
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Begin with The Ash Marriage and discover how Seraphina Ashborne, a living necromancer, becomes bound to Theron, the immortal King of the Dead.
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She was born with death in her blood. Then the King of the Dead asked for her hand.
Seraphina Ashborne has spent her life hiding the black veins beneath her skin and the dead voices that answer when she calls.
In Ashborne Village, her curse makes her feared, watched, and unwanted. But when the boundary between the living world and the Kingdom of the Dead begins to fracture, the dead do not come to destroy her.
They come to claim her.
Across the Veil waits Theron, the immortal King of the Dead: cold, ancient, beautiful, and bound to a throne no soul should desire.
He offers Seraphina a bargain no living woman should accept.
Marry him. Bind her blood to his kingdom.
Or watch both worlds collapse.
But the Ash Marriage is more than a ritual.
It awakens a bond neither of them can control, a power older than the Veil, and a question Seraphina can no longer avoid: Is her cursed blood a weapon, a key… or the beginning of something far more dangerous?
A marriage without trust. A bond without mercy. A love that should never survive.
The Ash Marriage is not an instant love story. It is a slow-burn descent into trust, fear, power, and desire between a woman who carries death in her blood and a king who has forgotten what it means to want anything for himself.
The Marriage
Their union is not romantic. It is a ritual designed to keep two worlds from tearing apart.
The Secret
Theron has already failed one queen. Seraphina may become the second woman he cannot save.
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The Bond
Pain, fear, desire and memory begin to move between them through a magical bond neither can fully control.
The Touch
His touch is cold enough to remind her of death. Her warmth is dangerous enough to wake the kingdom around him.
For readers who crave…
Necromancer heroine
Immortal King of the Dead
Cursed marriage
Slow-burn romance
Magical bond
Death-court fantasy
Heroine bound to dangerous power
One cursed bloodline. One immortal king. One kingdom that remembers every dead thing.
A living necromancer feared by her own village, Seraphina has spent her life hiding the black veins beneath her skin. When the Veil fractures, her curse becomes the only power able to answer the dead.
The immortal King of the Dead rules a kingdom of memory, silence and bone. He is feared by the dead, forbidden to the living, and haunted by the queen he once failed to save.
Seraphina’s younger sister is the last person tying her to the living world. But Ashborne blood rarely leaves one daughter untouched.
The Forgotten God
Table of Contents
The Ash Marriage · Chronicles of the Kingdom of the Dead, Book One
Prologue — The Last Memory
Act I — The Pact
- Chapter 1 — Black Veins
- Chapter 2 — The Bone Envoys
- Chapter 3 — The Crossing of the Veil
- Chapter 4 — The City of Whispers
- Chapter 5 — The King of the Dead
- Chapter 6 — The Night Before Ashes
- Chapter 7 — The Ash Marriage
- Chapter 8 — The Queen of the Dead
- Chapter 9 — The Laws of the Dead
- Chapter 10 — The Bond
Act II — The Kingdom
- Chapter 11 — The Forgotten God
- Chapter 12 — The Bone Gardens
- Chapter 13 — Whispers in the Dark
- Chapter 14 — The Confrontation
- Chapter 15 — The King’s Lessons
- Chapter 16 — The Labyrinth of Regrets
- Chapter 17 — Secrets of the Bloodline
- Chapter 18 — The First Attack
- Chapter 19 — After the Battle
- Chapter 20 — The God’s Whispers
- Chapter 21 — Truth of the Bloodline
- Chapter 22 — The Choice to Stay
Act III — The Breach
- Chapter 23 — The Alliance
- Chapter 24 — The Sea of Silence
- Chapter 25 — The Betrayal
- Chapter 26 — After the Betrayal
- Chapter 27 — The Name in the Dark
- Chapter 28 — The Crown at Her Feet
- Chapter 29 — The Incursion
- Chapter 30 — The First Kiss
Epilogue — The Promise
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About GustoScoop
GustoScoop writes across genres. In this series, love, power, death, memory, and sacrifice intertwine inside a haunting gothic fantasy world.
Chronicles of the Kingdom of the Dead explores impossible bonds, cursed bloodlines, gothic kingdoms, morally complex rulers, and the choices that transform those who dare to love at the edge of life and death.
Published by Gustoscoop Books. Reading order: begin with The Ash Marriage, then continue with Book Two.
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