The stories survived.
The truth did not.
Familiar fairy tales are only the beginning.
A Thousand Broken Roads is an interconnected adult romantic fantasy series about desire, memory, identity, and the dangerous question of who gets to decide what we are allowed to want.
BOOK ONE
Until the Root May Hear
She was taught that wanting was dangerous. She was never told why.
In a world shaped by the stories people inherited, one forbidden desire begins to uncover something older beneath them: a buried history of magic, choice, and the terrible cost of deciding what another person should want.
From the Broken Roads
Some things do not belong in the official story.
Letters from Alaina James, with glimpses behind A Thousand Broken Roads, early looks at new work, buried pieces of the world, and occasional things meant only for readers who know where to look.
ALAINA JAMES
Some stories ask to be retold.
Others ask to be questioned.
Alaina James writes dark, romantic fantasy about desire, memory, identity, and the stories we inherit. Her work is drawn to the places where familiar tales begin to fracture, and to the women who discover that wanting something is not the same as having chosen it.
A Thousand Broken Roads is her interconnected adult romantic fantasy series.
