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Nightshades by Melissa F. Olson

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Did not finish book.
I marked this "tabled4cliffhangers" on Goodreads. 
Reign & Ruin by J.D. Evans

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4.0

This is definitely a romance, but the romance took a distant backseat to the rest of the story, which is predominantly a court intrigue story. Or a court intrigue story used as world building. 

When I started this series I thought it was going to follow one couple, but here at the end of this first book I see that each book will have a different couple features, so very much a format typical of a romance series.

It's very well written, the story is creative, and it's all wrapped in a kind of alternative/faux/ancient Turkish culture that gives it a different flavor from some of the other popular choices.