The Crown of Moonlight
A Slow-burn Scottish Highland Historical Romantic Fantasy of Ancient Magic, Forbidden Love, and Devastating Choices
by Martina Boone
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Pub Date Nov 11 2025 | Archive Date Jul 12 2026
ARC provided by Mayfair Publishing | Mayfair Publishing
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Description
She’s the Scottish Highlander who saves his life with forbidden magic. He’s the immortal stranger who falls first—one healing touch, one fierce kindness at a time.
A romantic fantasy inspired by Scottish history, where the land itself is magic and chooses a woman as its champion.
Flora Domhnall is the last of her line: a healer, a strategist, and her clan's only defence in a war neither side can win. When she finds a dying immortal warrior in her woods, saving him is a terrible risk. But if he dies on her land, her clan will pay the price.
Her choice binds her fate to his.
Chyr has spent four centuries chained by the oaths carved into his flesh, oaths that read his every thought. Violence and honour are all he knows, and Flora's brave, impossible mercy breaks him open.
Hunted across the burning Highlands, they can rely only on each other. Their longing grows with every mile they share a saddle, every sacrifice made in silence, and every night they spend guarding each other in the dark.
He's hopelessly fallen. She's fighting not to fall.
Then the ancient sovereignty magic of the Cailleach Queens awakens in Flora—and marks her as something the world hasn’t seen in four hundred years.
And Chyr's oaths may demand he destroy the one person he can't bear to lose.
For her, he'll try to break his oaths. Even if it kills him.
A mythic Celtic romance perfect for readers who love the sweeping historical romance of Diana Gabaldon's Outlander, the soul-deep yearning of Rebecca Ross, and the dark, aching magic of Rachel Gillig's One Dark Window. The first book in a series about ancient crowns, impossible oaths, and a love that must survive betrayal, war, and the gods themselves.
★ A SCOTTISH HISTORICAL ROMANTIC FANTASY ★
✨ Emotionally dangerous slow-burn romance ✨ Mythic fantasy grounded in Jacobite-inspired history ✨ An immortal warrior chained by magical oaths who falls first and hard ✨ A fierce, strategic heroine with agency and power ✨ Forgotten queens, god-forged crowns, and a contested throne ✨ A shared journey through the war-torn Scottish Highlands ✨ Ancient sovereignty magic and Celtic mythology ✨ Dual POV, hard-won explicit intimacy after a true slow burn, and one epic love story—no love triangle
A Note From the Publisher
Advance Praise
"I COULD NOT STOP reading. The slow burn! THE TENSION! THE YEARNING!" —BookTok Reviewer
"The romance reminded me of Rebecca Ross’s writing—it’s soul-deep, human, and emotional, and I loved it." —ARC Reviewer
"As a massive fan of Outlander, I went into this story hoping for a touch of sweeping romance, aching emotion, and lush world-building—and I was not disappointed...the same sense of fate-touched love, and that slow, simmering tension between two characters who feel destined for each other." —ARC Reviewer
"Readers feel both the mortal cost of Flora's courage and the immortal ache of Chyr's duty. Their chemistry is beautifully rendered—never rushed, always earned..." —ARC Reviewer
Marketing Plan
Book One of The Five Crowns series. Five crowns. Two lovers. One throne between them.
Enhanced edition offered in May for review ahead of the Book Two cover reveal in June.
Book One of The Five Crowns series. Five crowns. Two lovers. One throne between them.
Enhanced edition offered in May for review ahead of the Book Two cover reveal in June.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9781946773265 |
| PRICE | $6.99 (USD) |
| PAGES | 461 |
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Featured Reviews
Let me preface by saying if you prefer a cookie-cutter fast-paced romantasy, with predictable worldbuilding, and the typical whiny young main characters--this one isn’t for you.
This book is slow-paced, it is careful, the worldbuilding is intensely steeped in Scottish lore/history, and the main characters are intellectually and emotionally mature. This book calls for you to sit down in a comfy chair, with a soft blanket, fuzzy socks, and a hot cup of tea/coffee, and escape into the lush Highlands.
For the first quarter of the book, the female main character, Flora, is nursing the male main character, Chyr, back to health. Through their daily interactions we gain a broader understanding of the ongoing war that is causing mass devastation and the complicated moral implications of choosing either side.
A dual POV gives us insight into both characters’ growing attraction for one another, an attraction that is physical, but also built on a growing understanding of each other’s convictions. The romantic connection is beautifully written as they both learn to trust and hope.
I am usually good at predicting plot twists, but I absolutely did not see the twists coming in this one. I am so invested in this story and these characters. I can’t wait to see how this series develops!
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