Margins
Thorns of Gold book cover
Thorns of Gold
2023
First Published
4.49
Average Rating
435
Number of Pages

Part of Series

She went to sleep knowing she would never wake up. He will do anything to save her. Rosalia knew she had condemned herself to death. She accepted that, but what she hadn’t anticipated was to be stuck in this in between, able to see the room around her and unable to leave it. But then the sister she had written off as a lost cause shows up… How can Rosalia keep her scheduled death on track when she’s a ghost? Midas’ worst nightmares came true when Rosalia sacrificed herself. Her final request was he break the curse to end the war and ensure her people’s freedom. While she’s asleep, there’s still work he has to do as her right-hand man. While he’s focused on trying to save a people who only ever saw him as a sacrifice, he doesn’t dare hope he’ll find answers on how to break his curse and give him a way to save Rosalia… does he? But if Midas can’t save Rosalia without killing her… maybe Aerona can. Only someone who truly loves Rosalia can break the curse… But after everything Aerona has been through, everything she’s done to the people she was supposed to love, is she even capable of it anymore? There’s only one thing more dangerous than Rosalia’s curse holding the empire hostage: The hope it can be can broken in any way that doesn’t end with a gold statue left in its wake.

Avg Rating
4.49
Number of Ratings
154
5 STARS
62%
4 STARS
28%
3 STARS
8%
2 STARS
3%
1 STARS
0%
goodreads

Author

Celeste Baxendell
Celeste Baxendell
Author · 19 books

Celeste Baxendell has always read anything she could get her hands on, but once she read her first fantasy novel, she was hooked and hasn’t looked back since. Her love of magic, adventure, and romance hasn’t waned with age, and she endeavors to write nail-biting stories with compelling, complex characters, and finding light in dark times. She is incredibly blessed to spend her time writing from her favorite chair with her legs curled up under her as she fights the southern heat. When she isn’t writing, she’s either reading, drawing, or sewing, in that order, and most likely thinking about writing as she does.

548 Market St PMB 65688, San Francisco California 94104-5401 USA
© 2025 Paratext Inc. All rights reserved