Cinderbound Dark romance Fairytale retelling

They turned her into a servant so they’d never have to fear what she could become.

For years, Elara has survived beneath ash and silence, trapped in the home that stole her name, her future, and every softness she once believed she deserved. By day, she scrubs floors and serves cruel women who treat obedience like virtue. By night, she sleeps beside dying embers and dreams of setting the entire world on fire.

Because survival was never the same thing as surrender.

When the royal palace announces a masquerade ball to find the prince a bride, Elara expects nothing more than another humiliation. But beneath the glittering excess of the court lurks something rotten beautiful men with blood on their hands, dangerous bargains whispered behind gilded doors, and a prince far more monstrous than the kingdom realizes.

And he notices her immediately.

Not the ashes. Not the rags. Her.

Pulled into a deadly game of obsession, power, and revenge, Elara finds herself caught between a possessive prince who wants to consume her, a ruthless royal guard who sees every ugly truth she hides beneath her silence, and the kingdom itself, which would rather burn than let a servant girl rise above her place.

But Elara has spent years learning how to survive cruelty.

Now she’s ready to weaponize it.

Dark, vicious, and seductively raw, CINDERBOUND is a fractured Cinderella retelling where romance is dangerous, kindness is currency, and the girl left in the ashes is no longer waiting to be saved.

She’s waiting to make them kneel.