Hilda Layne
Beneath the moon, every captive learns to burn.
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Bio
Hilda writes darkly romantic fantasy about love that survives the shadows. Her stories weave passion, power, and the ache of destiny into worlds where the moon watches and hearts are rarely unbroken. When she isn’t dreaming up cursed lovers and broken crowns, she’s probably lost in the moonlight with a cup of coffee and too many story ideas.
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Its Starts!
I’ve been writing for years — in notebooks, in secret, in silence.
What I lacked wasn’t words. It was confidence.
Today, I’m done hiding the things I love.
This is my first step as an author.
Coming Soon!
‘”He seeks to break an empire.
She was born to burn it down.
When Sultan Mehmed captures the dragon that guards Constantinople, he expects a weapon—a brutal gladiator forged by blood and battle.
Instead, he finds something unexpected, a Fae slave bound to the beast by ancient magic and centuries of silence.
She should have been his prisoner.
But her defiance stirs something far more dangerous than rebellion.
As Mehmed’s hunger for conquest collides with his growing obsession for the dragon’s rider, the lines between captor and captive blur.
Fire becomes temptation.
Desire becomes a battlefield.
And amid the crumbling walls of empires, one truth burns brighter than all—
love can be just as ruinous as war.”
The first book in the Blood and Mortar series will be available through Barns and Noble come February 2026.
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