These Shattered Spires

These Shattered Spires by Cassidy Ellis Salter is a gothic fantasy that leans gleefully into the macabre, with sharp humour, messy feelings and a magic system you’ll want to pick apart. Set in a world under a tooth-filled sky, it’s dark, visceral reading that still makes room for heart.

At Fourspires Castle, arcanists practise four disciplines—bone, blood, botany and stone—while their human familiars do the hard work of survival. After the king’s assassination, the realm plunges into the Slaughter: a ruthless competition where alliances are dangerous and death is treated like an exit. Four rival familiars—Taro, Nixie, Elliot and Alix—are forced into an uneasy team-up, chasing answers that might lift the curse rotting their world.

Perfect for readers who love queer YA fantasy, court intrigue, morally grey characters and found family dynamics with bite.

Step into Fourspires and see what’s waiting beyond the decay.