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Queens of Villainy
Queens of Villainy
Series · 3 books · 2025-2027
By
Stephanie Burgis
Books in series
#1
Wooing the Witch Queen
2025
In a Gaslamp-lit world where hags and ogres lurk in thick pine forests, three magical queens form an uneasy alliance to protect their lands from invasion…and love turns their world upside down.
Queen Saskia is the wicked sorceress everyone fears. After successfully wrestling the throne from her evil uncle, she only wants one thing: to keep her people safe from the empire next door. For that, she needs to spend more time in her laboratory experimenting with her spells. She definitely doesn’t have time to bring order to her chaotic library of magic. When a mysterious dark wizard arrives at her castle, Saskia hires him as her new librarian on the spot. “Fabian” is sweet and a little nerdy, and his requests seem a little strange – what in the name of Divine Elva is a fountain pen? – but he’s getting the job done. And if he writes her flirtatious poetry and his innocent touch makes her skin singe, well… Little does Saskia know that the "wizard" she’s falling for is actually an Imperial archduke in disguise, with no magical training whatsoever. On the run, with perilous secrets on his trail and a fast growing yearning for the wicked sorceress, he's in danger from her enemies and her newfound allies, too. When his identity is finally revealed, will their love save or doom each other?
#2
Enchanting the Fae Queen
2026
Coming Spring 2026
#3
Melting the Ice Queen
2027
The epic conclusion of the Queens of Villainy series, featuring an ice queen’s marriage of convenience to the fiery high priestess…and their kingdoms will never be the same again.
Queen Ailana of Nornne is famous for her magical powers over ice and snow and her equally frosty self-control. The head of a powerful spy network and the guiding force behind the Queens of Villainy, she makes every decision based on cool and unemotional calculations... Including marriage to a woman she strongly suspects of keeping dangerous secrets. Hot-headed High Priestess Clothilde has been under the brutal control of her brother Otto, the Emperor of the Serafin Empire. But behind the smile she’s been forced to wear in public, a fiery passion for justice has been building—and an equally hot passion for Ailana herself. Clothilde proposes a marriage of convenience in their shared efforts to bring down her brother, but she’s determined to melt all of Ailana’s walls of ice, because Clothilde has been keeping another secret, too. The gods of the Imperial Pantheon have been speaking to her for years, and they’ve gifted her with two world-shaking Ailana is her destined true love...and if the two wives don’t find a way to work together as equals, side by side with their fellow Queens of Villainy, a storm of war and blood will leave all of their futures in ruins.
Author
Stephanie Burgis
Author · 55 books