First published 2020
Aria has a mandate: rebuild the House of Magic and repair the damage her family left scattered across the Nine Realms. She steps into that work expecting chaos. She does not expect the scale of the darkness that has already taken root in the land, nor does she expect Knox, a man who tracks her with single-minded purpose and refuses to stop. She runs. He follows. Her body and mind begin to betray her, pulling toward the very person she needs to escape. Worse, the creature living inside her has its own agenda. It wants Knox, wants the monster in him, and it does not care what that costs Aria. A centuries-old curse has hung over the Hecate bloodline for more than five hundred years, and Aria may be the only one who can break it. Mysterious silver-haired men appear and offer help, though their motives are unclear. An active war presses in from every direction. Aria is protecting people she loves, fighting a curse, outrunning a hunter, and struggling against her own need for him. She intends to bring the Nine Realms and Knox himself to their knees before she is done.
Genres: romance, fantasy, adult, adult-fiction, dark-fantasy, dark-romance
Vibes: atmospheric, dark, emotionally-charged, fast-paced, intense, suspenseful
Tropes: chosen-one, enemies-to-lovers, forced-proximity, internal-conflict, paranormal-romance
Setting: Nine Realms, House of Magic
557 pages · Paperback · Amelia Hutchins
Content warnings: death, violence