Isolde Alcott has worn her curse like armor for three years. The winter veil keeps everyone at arm's length, which is exactly where she needs them. As leader of the mortal rebellion, she's spent a decade planning to kill the vampire king who murdered her mother. She doesn't need softness. She doesn't need touch. She just needs him dead.
But ancient magic doesn't care what she needs.
When a coronation spell marks Isolde as the fated queen of Tiberian Holt, the very monster she's sworn to destroy, she's dragged into the Palace of Shadow with a countdown carved into her bones. Forty days to marry him. Forty days to consummate a bond she didn't choose. And if she refuses? Both realms collapse into nothing.
The magic is cruel in its it can sense pretense. She can't just endure his touch. She has to want it. And every day she resists, someone she loves dies in their sleep.
Touch him and betray everything she believes. Don't touch him, and watch her family die one by one.
Tiberian is nothing like she expected. His secrets run deeper than his sins, and his hands are gentle where they should be brutal. The mate bond pulls her closer with every passing night, and her traitorous body is starting to answer.
But some truths can shatter a woman more completely than any curse. And the proof she finds about her mother's death?
It will either save her or break her beyond repair.
Enemies-to-lovers. Forced proximity. Touch her and die... unless you're the one man she's sworn to kill.
🌙 For readers who enemies-to-lovers, angst, forced proximity, devotion, dark vampire kings, heroines who rise from victim to goddess, and found family.
beginning of the book was great, but if feels like the rest of the book was not edited or beta read. I think the idea of this book is a good one but on execution it left something to be desired.
I’m actually really upset this is the first book I have ever DNF’d… this actually started out super promising, even now I’m like “this could have been such a good story” BUT this author either didn’t have any proof reading or editing OR this is AI written because not only is it super repetitive but the time lines make no sense! In the beginning it says 40day to consummate the marriage or the realm collapses and in the mean time people that she loves will die until then, then the time line started getting a little funky in between meetings with the council just mistypes 2 days turns into 3 or a tomorrow meeting then states it’s in 2 days things I could look over but THEN I get to about 40% of the book and 10 days have passed, which means they’d have 30 days left or the whole realm collapses, right? NOPE the counsel decides they have 30 more days and they’ll reasses and then extend them time as necessary… this just completely broke the entire plot! I’m actually super annoyed because this book has sooo much promise but the time line being the entire plot then it being super off just completely ruins the entire book.
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Isolde (FMC) is a human and she is fated to a vampire Tiberian (MMC). The problem is that she has to mate with him in order to seal their mate bound. Isolde refuses because how can she mate with someone whom she’s hated for years and killed her mom? Every day that passes that their bond is not sealed someone in their realm dies.
This book honestly started out super promising, but it ended up being super repetitive. Just repeating the same thing over and over and over again. Also, the time line made no sense. They have a deadline that they must mate before time runs out and the realm collapses. Part way through when they think time is running out the council gives them an extension…. How can they have an extension when there is a deadline? Also, every few pages it’s just repeats how Tiberian killed her mom and she detests him.
Isolde (FMC) is a human and she is fated to a vampire Tiberian (MMC). Only problem is that she has to mate with him in order to seal their mate bound. How can she do this when Tiberian killed Isolde’s mother. Every day that passes that their bond is not sealed someone in their realm dies. Tension is tight and the fate of the realms rest on Isolde’s hands. Definitely Recommend this paranormal romance
I thought the book started off great. It was intense and interesting, but 30% of the way through, it started to feel repetitive. Both main characters were basically saying and thinking similar things. I thought the book could have been shorter. This ends in a cliffhanger. 3.5 stars