The Crownless Land Trilogy - Book 1
Blood of the Village
Out nowA disputed burial, a hidden crime, and a village caught between Christian duty, old fear, and the suspicion of restless dead.
Author of The Crownless Land Trilogy
Clara Damian
Dark historical fantasy rooted in Romanian folklore.
Before Wallachia had a crown, it had villages, wolves, graves, and oaths - and some oaths were older than God.
About
Clara Damian writes dark historical fantasy rooted in Romanian folklore, old beliefs, and the places where history leaves silence behind. Her work follows villages, borderlands, oaths, graves, wolves, and the uneasy line between Christian ritual and older fears.
Her Crownless Land Trilogy is set in the pre-state Wallachian lands south of the Carpathians in the late 13th century, where power belongs not to kings, but to those who can bind people through fear, debt, blood, and promises.
Books
The Crownless Land Trilogy
The Crownless Land Trilogy - Book 2
The River Oath
Out 8 July 2026The trilogy continues beyond the village, into river crossings, dangerous loyalties, and oaths that cannot be broken without cost.
The Crownless Land Trilogy - Book 3
Wolves of the Crownless Land
Coming December 2026The trilogy concludes as villages, lordships, old pacts, and nameless graves push the crownless land toward something larger than survival.
The Crownless Land Trilogy
The Crownless Land Trilogy is a YA dark historical fantasy series set in the fractured Wallachian borderlands before statehood. It blends grounded medieval detail with documented Romanian folklore, political danger, slow-burn emotional tension, and supernatural fear that feels local, old, and morally costly.
There are no shining kingdoms here. No easy magic. No clean heroes.
Only wolves at the tree line, water carrying oaths downstream, and a boy learning that some promises can build a land - while others must be buried before they rise again.