Book I
Blood of the Village
Out nowA disputed burial, a hidden crime, and a village caught between Christian duty, old fear, and the suspicion of restless dead.
The Crownless Land Trilogy
Dark historical fantasy rooted in Romanian folklore.
Before Wallachia had a crown, it had villages, wolves, graves, and oaths - and some oaths were older than God.
Books
The Crownless Land Trilogy
Book II
The River Oath
New Release — July 2026The trilogy continues beyond the village, into river crossings, dangerous loyalties, and oaths that cannot be broken without cost.
Book III
Wolves of the Crownless Land
Coming December 2026The trilogy concludes as villages, lordships, old pacts, and nameless graves push the crownless land toward something larger than survival.
The Crownless Land Trilogy
There are no shining kingdoms here.
No easy magic. No clean heroes.
A YA dark historical fantasy set in the fractured Wallachian borderlands before statehood — grounded medieval detail, documented Romanian folklore, and supernatural fear that feels local, old, and morally costly.
Only wolves at the tree line, water carrying oaths downstream, and a boy learning that some promises can build a land — while others must be buried before they rise again.
About Clara
Clara Damian writes dark historical fantasy rooted in Romanian folklore, old beliefs, and the places where history leaves silence behind. Her work follows villages, borderlands, oaths, graves, wolves, and the uneasy line between Christian ritual and older fears.
Her Crownless Land Trilogy is set in the pre-state Wallachian lands south of the Carpathians in the late 13th century, where power belongs not to kings, but to those who can bind people through fear, debt, blood, and promises.