by Kresley Cole
Part of Immortals After Dark, book 12
First published 2012
Trehan Daciano serves as the Prince of Shadows, a master assassin who protects the vampire kingdom of Dacia. For centuries he has lived without personal desire, striking down threats in the night with cold precision. Everything changes when he sees Bettina, a young sorceress under the protection of two powerful Lore villains. She has made a terrible mistake and must now marry whoever wins a brutal tournament fought to the death. Though Bettina loves another, she dreams of a mysterious cloaked swordsman who offers her forbidden pleasures. Trehan enters the deadly competition, determined to claim her as his bride. But surviving the punishing contests is only the beginning. When he finally reveals his true nature to Bettina, his millennium of savage vampire desire might either terrify her or awaken matching passion within her own heart.
Genres: romance, fantasy, dark-fantasy, paranormal-romance
Vibes: dark, emotional, suspenseful
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, forbidden-romance
Setting: Dacia
481 pages · Kindle Edition · Pocket Books
Content warnings: violence