Lunaria

Lunaria is one of those books that sneaks up on you. The first quarter is a slow simmer of worldbuilding and court politics, but once the threads start pulling together, the twists hit like a freight train. Kara Douglas writes banter that crackles and a slow burn that genuinely earns the payoff. Read this curled up somewhere cozy, but maybe have book two on standby because that ending is unreal.