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Carissa Broadbent is an American bestselling fantasy romance author whose name has become closely connected with modern romantasy, dark epic fantasy, vampire politics, morally complicated romance, emotionally wounded heroines, and sweeping stories of power, survival, sacrifice, and desire. She is best known as the #1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the “Crowns of Nyaxia” series, but her career also reflects the rise of independent publishing and the growing influence of reader communities such as BookTok on contemporary fantasy. Broadbent first built a devoted readership through self-publishing, writing the kind of adult romantic fantasy that did not always fit neatly into traditional fantasy or young adult categories. Her early success showed that readers were hungry for stories with adult protagonists, high emotional stakes, dangerous love interests, and fantasy plots that treated romance not as decoration, but as a central force shaping character, conflict, and consequence. Her “War of Lost Hearts” series, which includes the prequel novella “Ashen Son” and the trilogy “Daughter of No Worlds,” “Children of Fallen Gods,” and “Mother of Death and Dawn,” established many of the themes that define her work. The series follows Tisaanah, a former slave and powerful magic wielder who seeks the strength to free her people, and Max, a reclusive former soldier and sorcerer whose past has left him wary of both war and intimacy. Through their story, Broadbent explores trauma, freedom, revolution, found family, healing, consent, guilt, and the difficult process of learning to trust after violence. Her later global breakout came with “The Serpent and the Wings of Night,” the first book in the “Crowns of Nyaxia” series and the opening volume of the “Nightborn Duet.” Set in a brutal vampire world ruled by competing houses and divine power, the novel follows Oraya, the human adopted daughter of a vampire king, as she enters the Kejari, a deadly tournament held in honor of the goddess Nyaxia. Her alliance with Raihn, a dangerous vampire rival, creates a romance shaped by suspicion, attraction, ambition, betrayal, and shared vulnerability. The sequel, “The Ashes and the Star-Cursed King,” expands the political consequences of that relationship and deepens the series’ interest in power, grief, loyalty, and the cost of ruling. Broadbent has also widened the “Crowns of Nyaxia” world through “Six Scorched Roses,” “Slaying the Vampire Conqueror,” “The Songbird and the Heart of Stone,” and “The Fallen and the Kiss of Dusk,” with “The Lion and the Deathless Dark” launching the “Bloodborn Duet.” Across these books, she builds an interconnected fantasy universe of gods, vampires, cursed bargains, wars, trials, divine cruelty, and intimate emotional reckonings. Her style is fast-paced, sensual, violent, and deeply character-driven; she excels at pairing large-scale fantasy conflict with private emotional devastation, allowing battles, betrayals, and magical systems to matter because they change the people at the center of the story. Broadbent’s fiction appeals to readers who want dark romance, enemies-to-lovers tension, slow-burn trust, strong female leads, morally gray heroes, epic stakes, and worlds where love can be both salvation and weapon. She lives in Rhode Island with her husband, her son, and one skeptical cat, and she continues to be one of the most visible and influential authors in today’s romantasy boom.