A warlock killer engaged to the wrong man must decide whether to marry her saviour or fall for the three monsters she was raised to destroy.
The last thing Raina wants is to get married.
ESPECIALLY not to John.
She’d much rather finish killing the warlocks who kidnapped her mother and trapped her thirty-person village on a dying planet of rising sands and hungry monsters. She’s already murdered most of them. Only three head warlocks remain.
Then John proposes.
And somehow, she finds herself saying yes.
John wants a June wedding. Preferably somewhere that isn’t the desolate wasteland they’ve been rotting in for decades. Raina wants revenge. But when she finally confronts the last three warlocks, she discovers something impossible: they aren’t the monsters she was raised to hate.
They bleed. They laugh. They grieve.
And they claim her mother died creating the very prison Raina is trying to escape and that the villagers she’s been killing for would happily sacrifice her to keep it intact.
Given one impossible chance at freedom, Raina steps through a portal into Merryland, a world of snow-bright mountains, wishing forests, nightmare creatures and five stolen dragon eggs she must recover to secure her people’s survival.
But the more she learns, the less she knows who the real enemy is.
Caught between a cruel fiancé, three devastatingly powerful warlocks, and a universe that fears the fire in her veins, Raina must decide between saving the people who broke her or becoming the monster they always said she was.
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This is a dark book, please read the trigger warnings before proceeding.
