First published 2022
Kahleena Danann grew up knowing the Fates had shown her something. She saw her future, and she expected it to arrive on schedule. What she did not expect was that the man written into that future would be Arius, a freed prisoner with a thousand years of rage and a plan to burn the Faery realm down around her parents' throne. He abducts her as the opening move in his revenge against the high king and queen, Ryder and Synthia. She was supposed to crumble. Instead she stands in front of him and tells him exactly what she thinks of his intentions. Arius has never met anyone like her. She is the daughter of his enemies, and she is threatening to unravel every calculation he has made. His touch does things to her she is not ready to feel. Her defiance does things to him he cannot afford. War-torn Faery is fracturing along old fault lines, two factions are moving toward a collision, and somewhere in the middle of all of it, Kahleena and Arius are running out of room to pretend their futures are not already tied together. This is a prequel to Kahleena's larger story.
Genres: romance, fantasy, adult, dark-fantasy, epic-fantasy, fantasy-romance
Vibes: dark, emotionally-charged, fast-paced, intense, passionate, suspenseful
Tropes: abduction, defiant-heroine, enemies-to-lovers, fated-mates, forced-proximity
Setting: Faery realm
344 pages · Paperback · Independently published
Content warnings: kidnapping, violence, war