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What happens when the old pacts fail – and Faerie demands a reckoning?

In a gaslit city where Faerie walks hidden and dragon-lords stir in secret, exile is not always the end – it is sometimes just the beginning.

John Storey was once a soldier, a carouser, and a Londoner – until the Great Fire swept him through a crack in the world and into Faerie. Changed and returned to mortal life, he now lives quietly as a bookseller in Regency London, hiding the strange gifts he brought back. But when the exiled Fae queen Ara Mor Faryn reappears, cloaked in glamour and political secrets, he’s drawn once more into the dangerous realm between worlds.

Ara, once consort to a Fae king, is now little more than a pawn in her former lover Eldaeriel’s schemes. Stripped of her power, commanded to seduce and spy, she finds herself drawn instead into the mystery of two children rescued from fire – changelings who may hold the key to Faerie’s salvation or ruin.

Set between a haunted London and the shadowed strongholds of Faerie, On Wings of Ruin is a richly imagined fantasy of forgotten pacts, fading magic, and the cost of exile. For Storey and Ara, the path forward may lie not in reclaiming old thrones – but in rewriting the rules of the realm itself.