Lirien Ashbourne writes spicy fae romantasy about cosmic bonds and the politics that try to break them. Her novels are set in multi-court fae empires where treaties hold by inches and mate-bonds are revealed at exactly the worst possible moment. She writes for readers who want their romantasy in the Maas, Armentrout, and Black register: court intrigue dense, magic tactile, the heat fully on the page. When she is not building courts, she is reading other people's. The Bargain Courts is her debut trilogy.