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Fairytales for the Faithless · Book Two
A Vow Beyond the Grave
Rosalie and Trystan’s story continues.
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Fairytales for the Faithless · Book One
She entered his garden to save her mother.
He made her the price.
Beyond the dying woods, Eldritch Manor’s gardens still bear fruit. Desperate to save her family, Rosalie steals from the necromancer who owns them.
Trystan offers a cruel bargain: stay with him, and her family will be spared.
Behind his doors, the dead obey him. His bare touch brings ruin. Rosalie intends to escape. Then shared drawings, stolen laughter, and the ache of a carefully gloved hand begin to change what she wants.
But desire can only take them so far. Before she can trust the man beneath the curse, Trystan must answer for the suffering he has caused—and surrender the power to keep her.
Outside the gates, a starving village is turning its grief into vengeance.
Previously published as Beauty & the Necromancer. This second edition has been extensively rewritten and expanded.
A dark, romantic fairy-tale reimagining for adult readers. Book One ends on a cliffhanger; Rosalie and Trystan’s story continues in the next volume.
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Fairytales for the Faithless · Book Two
Rosalie and Trystan’s story continues.
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Fairytales for the Faithless · Book Three
Her parents promised her safety.
A god demanded her future.
Kora has grown up in a garden where pomegranates ripen out of season and every question about the world earns another warning. Her parents call it safety. Then she learns what they have been hiding: a god expects her as his bride, and her eighteenth birthday is the end of his patience.
Taken to a realm of dazzling light, Kora discovers how easily worship becomes obedience. Escape draws her toward a rival court—and Dartagnon, its dangerous ruler, whose attention awakens a hunger she barely understands.
But the power stirring inside her has made her valuable to both sides. The friend she trusted has secrets. The man she desires has blood on his hands. And every offer of freedom asks her to surrender something of herself.
Kora will have to decide whom to believe—and how much she is willing to risk to choose her own life.
A dark Rapunzel × Persephone reimagining for adult readers. A Tower of Sweet Lies begins Kora’s continuing story; its romance and wider conflict continue in the next book.
GOTHIC FANTASY BY KATE SEGER
Haunted histories. Dangerous bargains. Love that refuses to yield, even when the world asks it to.
THE WORLDS OF KATE SEGER
Books and series of of devotion, loss, and the strange things waiting on the other side.
Begin with The Beast Beneath the Bells
London, 1888. A fire-marked diary leads manuscript conservator Cordelia beneath Blackfriars Bridge, where Sunder—a guardian of horn and stone—has been chained by another man's grief for forty years.
Explore The Troth
Begin with Shattered Birthright
The dragons have chosen two heirs. The throne was built for one. Raised on opposite sides of the same city, Sorelle and Zarielle discover a shared birthright—and very different visions for their kingdom.
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A covenant sealed in bone. Renewed in blood.
England, 1348. Healer Else inherits a covenant kept for generations. Begin with The Bone Woman, a complete prequel you can read here for free.
Discover the duet
Mirror Heart & Gilded Blood
Ancient cathedrals remember every sin. Begin with When the Iron Rusts, the free prequel, then follow Mirror Heart and Gilded Blood.
Enter the cathedral
Some families inherit more than ghosts.
Follow the Leclair–Harrow–Ashworth bloodline through a century of spirits, bargains, and survival, where the border between life and death is never as firm as it seems.
Cross the veil
Begin with The Girl From Beyond the Veil
A girl torn between worlds. A realm waiting for its chosen one. Follow Arianette’s story, then explore the connected courts through Tales of the Fae and Tales of the Sidhe.
Cross into the Realms
Begin with A Cruel and Hungry Heart
Rosalie and Trystan’s story begins with A Cruel and Hungry Heart and continues in A Vow Beyond the Grave. A Tower of Sweet Lies begins Kora’s continuing story.
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Begin with The Sweating Year
Begin with The Sweating Year, then The Quickening Year. The Tolling Year is the free prequel.
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He would rather damn them both than bury her.
England, 1854. Victoriana longs for the life she shared with her husband before illness confined her to their home. Lucien returns from York promising to restore it.
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He would rather damn them both than bury her.
England, 1854. Victoriana longs for the life she shared with her husband before illness confined her to their home. Lucien returns from York promising to restore it.
But he no longer draws breath. And he will not accept her refusal to join him.
Fleeing to her sister brings Victoriana into the reach of an ancient vampire who intends to use their marriage to break the laws that bind his kind. He needs her faith—and a vow she must give freely.
She means to deny him both.
To survive, Victoriana must confront the creatures who would claim her, and the desire she still feels for the man who betrayed her. Lucien may yet become her ally. But if he hopes to be loved again, he must first let her go.
A standalone gothic vampire romance.
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Kate Seger writes character-driven dark fantasy and paranormal romance. Her stories follow people who make impossible choices at the edges of faith, death, and desire—and who keep reaching for one another anyway.
From plague-struck villages to haunted cathedrals and the thin places between worlds, each story invites you a little deeper into the dark.
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