Every century, the five ancient vampire courts demand a tithe of living blood, and the village of Varenhal sends its most cursed daughter to pay it. Solène Voss has been marked since birth, her blood carrying a rare luminescence that makes her both coveted and condemned. She arrives at the Court of Thornwall expecting death at the hands of its ruthless king. What she doesn’t expect is for Aldric Vael, the blood-crowned ruler who has never once spared a sacrifice, to look at her across his obsidian throne and feel something ancient and violent crack open inside his chest.
Now a political war is cracking the alliance between the courts, a forbidden prophecy names her as either salvation or destruction, and Aldric must choose between the kingdom he has bled for centuries to hold, and the woman he was supposed to let die.
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