How does it feel to want when your heart has never known love?
Selene Argentea leads an isolated life of disenchantment as the mistreated spymaster at the royal court of Valourya. After a long period of relative peace, the small human kingdom faces the emerging threat of two charismatic cult leaders, Nyxis and Zalthorn, grasping for power. Selene is sent on a hopeless and deadly mission to infiltrate the Order of the Unbeating Heart and assassinate the heads of the organization.
A treacherous and sinful game begins.
Selene finds herself thrown into emotional turmoil, bearing a lifetime of regret about following orders instead of her heart. Torn between her sense of duty and unwelcome attraction toward the people she was commanded to kill, her fate becomes hers to decide for the very first time.
Side by side with her enemies, she discovers who she truly wants to be.
One bargain.
Two souls.
A trifold price for love.
Nyxis Luscinia was born into a life of opulence and wealth, a bright future as Head Priestess of the Xar'vathi ahead of her. Alas, that prospect sounds pretty boring to the woman common folk only refer to as the pale daughter. Instead of becoming a puppet enslaved to the Emperor of Xar'vath, she craves to pull the strings herself.
Determined to reign over all, Nyxis sets out to forge her own destiny.
Far removed from her family's stifling rules and expectations, she lives a life on the run, hiding her true identity. By day, she uses her talents as a bard to make coin. But come nightfall, her secret quest for power leads her down a darker path full of necromancy and dangerous rituals.
Zalthorn is the brutal son of the mightiest sovereign in the Hells and heir to the demonic throne of House Varaxis. Entrenched in boredom and apathy, the tyrant Prince has only one goal: to find the horned woman he saw in a childhood dream. A pity that no Demon in all the Hells matches his description of the beauty he believes to be his fated mate. Worse, demonic society has long dismissed this ancient belief in kinship between souls as impractical folly.
Now, his family's patience for Zalthorn's romantic ideals has run out. The ultimatum of an arranged marriage with a noble bride threatens to end his hopeless search.
But Zalthorn isn't quite ready to give up yet when a strangely alluring ritual summon leads him to the one place he despises the most: the mortal realm.
As Nyxis and Zalthorn meet, their depraved attraction sets fire to their very souls.
The two are forced to ask themselves if fate truly exists, and just how much they're both willing to sacrifice for rapacious love.
River Anderson finally snapped.
Now she’s on the run, the stench of copper clinging to her fingers like the phantom smell of sin.
When her car breaks down on a deserted forest road in the middle of the night, search for help leads her to an abandoned, decrepit estate—and what should have been a deadly accident.
Instead of death, however, River gets a second chance at life.
A fresh start in another realm, one like those she’s always dreamed of, seeking escapism from reality in fantasy books and horror video games.
Yet a world of thrilling magic and terrifying creatures isn’t the sole adventure awaiting her. The greatest enigma is her mysterious host: A veiled, charming gentleman, offering her shelter and respite in his luxurious mansion.
But River isn’t the only one with a dark secret and debased urges.
While she finds herself irresistibly attracted to this kind stranger, she realizes he might just be the most dangerous monster of all.
8 years ago, my stepbrothers disappeared.
In a world that left us for dead from the day we were born, Cynthian and Elias were my sanctuary amidst life’s cruel chaos.
Without them, I am haunted.
They are the lost specters wandering the corridors of my mind. Their phantom touches linger on my soul, the scorching brand of their love seared into my skin.
I can’t let them go.
I will never know peace until I discover what happened to them.
Now finally reunited, our freedom and our lives hang in the balance, trapped in a deadly game.
My stepbrothers have changed, but so have I. The once-tender threads of affection connecting our hearts have been forged into iron chains.
The innocence of our younger years has been lost, warped into something sinister and pitch-black. I’m afraid, yet I can’t stop wanting them. And it seems after years of secret pining in my youth, Cyn and Eli want me, too.
But am I truly ready to become their plaything and satisfy the dangerous urges of my villainous stepbrothers?