Moonvow

Moonvow by Sasha Leone is out now, published July 14, 2026.

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Moonvow Release Date: July 14, 2026

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Once a generation, her town weds a bride to the fae lord under the full moon to hold back the sea. No one ever asks what it costs the dragon underneath.
Cerys Lanyon has read the tide in her own blood since she was a girl — she feels the pull of the moon the way other people feel their own heartbeat, and the sea has never once lied to her. So when the Lord of the Tide Court names her the next Moonvow bride, she knows two things the priests do not. She knows the tide her whole town lives by is wrong. And she knows exactly what the last bride to feel it, her own mother, was told before she faded and died: that her body was lying, and the vow was a mercy.

The Moonvow is supposed to renew the moon’s leash on the sea and hold back the Devouring Tide that drowned the old villages three hundred years ago. Cerys crosses the drowning road to the fae lord’s cold island prepared to be honored to death like every bride before her.

Then, at the bottom of a flooded stair, she puts her hand on the stone and feels a living thing on the other side of it — and everything the vow was built to protect turns out to be a lie older than the town.

Rhystan Duvane has kept the vault-watch for two hundred years. Every dawn he lays his hand on the sealed stone and tells it to hold, and every generation he watches a bride slowly go still, and he calls his grief the same as objecting. He is about to learn from a tide-reader what two centuries never taught him: that there is no monster in the sea, that there never was, and that the rite his House was built on has only ever kept a dragon asleep so her light could keep the whole coast rich.

The Devouring Tide is not coming. It has not been coming for three hundred years. The only thing the vow holds down is a moon-dragon who wants to wake — and the only thing that can free her is the one thing no bride has ever been allowed and no lord has ever offered: a vow that is chosen instead of taken.

To break it, Cerys has to refuse the marriage the whole coast believes protects them, and hold up the beloved woman who raised her as exactly what she is. And Rhystan has to give away the only certainty two hundred years ever gave him, in front of everyone, under the full moon, and mean it.

Perfect for readers who love forced-marriage romance, morally-grey fae lords, and a dragon who is a person, not a prize.

🌊 Forced marriage between a salt-practical mortal tide-reader and a guilt-worn, centuries-old fae lord
🐉 A moon-dragon kept asleep as a lie, waiting three hundred years for someone to ask her what she wants
🌕 A full-moon vow-rite that spends a bride’s own body — and a heroine who feels the dragon as a wrong tide in her own blood
⚖️ A warm, beloved villain entirely certain her quiet cruelty is a mercy
💍 Standalone romantasy with a full, satisfying HEA
Full-length romantasy (55,000+ words). Standalone love story with a satisfying HEA. Intended for readers 18+.

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Genre: Paranormal Romance

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