Spice level
3/5
Open door
“It includes explicit romance, mature language, violence, gore, suicide, death, grief, reference to a stillborn birth that occurs off-page”
Source: Raven Kennedy's site, checked Oct 19, 2026. We place that description on the FaeShelf 0 to 5 spice scale.
Read it or skip it
Read it if
- You want an open door romance with one or more explicit scenes (FaeShelf spice 3/5, from Raven Kennedy's note).
- You want magical bond, as the publisher's description puts it.
- You have read The Plated Prisoner up to book 5.
Skip it if
- You want romance without explicit sex (FaeShelf spice 3/5, from Raven Kennedy's note).
- You want to avoid violence on the page (listed by Raven Kennedy's site).
- You have not read Gild yet: start there.
Content notes
- Violence: Violence and gore. “It includes explicit romance, mature language, violence, gore, suicide, death, grief” (Raven Kennedy's site)
- Death: Suicide, death and grief; an off-page stillbirth; a mother and child die in childbirth. “suicide, death, grief, reference to a stillborn birth that occurs off-page, death of mother and child during childbirth, and death of a creature” (Raven Kennedy's site)
- Strong language: Mature language. “It includes explicit romance, mature language, violence, gore, suicide, death, grief” (Raven Kennedy's site)
A book missing from this list is not guaranteed to be free of that content.
Tropes and creatures
Only tags the publisher’s own description names, with its wording.
- Magical bond“The ancient magic of the pair bond. Slade and I are connected by more than just fated magic” (source)
Same series: The Plated Prisoner
Read Gold first.
How we checked this
This page draws on 3 source pages, each linked next to the fact it supports, last checked on Oct 19, 2026. Spice comes only from a named review or the author’s or publisher’s own content notes, quoted as published and placed on our 0 to 5 scale; reader shelves and fan sites are not used. Ratings change daily, so the Goodreads figure is a dated snapshot. Read more about our sources, or browse all books.