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  • Published: 22 September 2026
  • ISBN: 9781405979726
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 528
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The Sweetest Fiend




From the Sunday Times bestselling author of the Plated Prisoner series comes the first book in an alluring and addictive romantasy duology set in a world of fae and dark magic

It’s time to pay the Piper.

Our world cracked open like an egg. Power burst out, and with it, nine monstrous Banes ready to destroy everything. The powerful Core fae finally slayed them all, but each Bane left a Plague to punish us.

But that’s not the only thing they left behind.

I’m half Bane, half fae, and wholly hated. Survival means enduring every vicious glare and cursed outbreak. Until one day, a Plague descends upon my city that means certain death.

Then he comes. The Pied Piper.

He rids my city of the Plague, but it comes at a cost. One hundred and thirty people are taken as payment. Including me.

I don’t know what he’s going to do to us, but I know I have to get home. My family’s lives depend on it. But the Piper won’t let me go, and something wicked stirs between us. The sweet scent in my veins beckons him, while the seductive lure of his magic sinks under my skin.

I have to escape before it’s too late. Because if I don’t, it’s not just my heart at risk. . .

But the entire world.

  • Published: 22 September 2026
  • ISBN: 9781405979726
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 528
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Praise for The Plated Prisoner Series

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Gild is a heart-pounding fantasy romance, and this outstanding book will keep you gripped until the very last word. It’s beautifully written and is a truly riveting story. If you love Sarah J Maas and Jennifer L Armentrout this book is for you! This series is gripping, enticing and darkly romantic. Don’t miss out on this un-putdownable read!

Caroline Peckham & Susanne Valenti, Wall Street Journal Bestselling authors

This series has stolen my heart, my breath, my regard for anything else. I've never been so immersed in a story before-never read characters that have felt so real. I've cried, laughed, screamed, thrown my kindle across the room, picked it up again, swooned . . . These characters, this WORLD . . . it's everything. Raven has written a story for the ages, destined to go down as one of the epics

Sarah A Parker, author of When the Moon Hatched and To Bleed a Crystal Bloom

Raven writes with a magic that comes to life on the page. Every single word gleams like gold

Beck Michaels, author of Divine Blood

This is one of those series that started off phenomenal, and only gets better with every subsequent book.

Laura Thalassa, author of The Bargainer Series

Get ready to be enthralled from the first word, and begging for more by the last. Raven Kennedy crafts an astonishing world that's filled with captivating characters and a story you won't be able to put down

Ivy Asher, bestselling author of The Osseous Chronicles and The Lost Sentinel Series

This series is amazing and I can't recommend it enough. It is one of the best New Adult Fantasy books out there.

Kay Thatcher, author of Prince of Blades

TEN GILDED STARS! Remarkably original . . .and the prose, people . . . gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous

Olivia Wildenstein, USA Today Bestselling Author

An emotional rollercoaster

Elizabeth Brown, author of Blood Crown

What I've enjoyed so far about this series is how it's a metaphor about real, emotional issues

Day Leitao, author of Kingdom of Curses and Shadows Series

I devoured [the] first book and it ended on such a nice cliff-hanger that I am thirsting for the next one

Emmie Hamilton, author of Chosen to Fall