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A Bride for the Dead: A Dark Fantasy Why Choose Romance
A beekeeper sold to the vampire court beneath the mountain. Three monsters who bought her. One year to choose.
Ottilie Blythe keeps bees and thanks monsters by name. She was raised useful and sheltered and told it was love, and at the boundary stones she learns the tithe was never a sacrifice. It's custody, and her blood is the reason.
Emeric, the lord who signs for her, has buried eleven brides and swore never to want a twelfth.
Bram, his feral brother, wears chains he asked for and understands, before she does, exactly what her family made her.
Crispin, the court physician, draws her blood for her health and finds something in it that was never human.
Court law says an unbonded bride is drained to feed the failing veinlight at year's end. To live, Ottilie has to choose one of them, in front of a court that would rather she bleed. And something at the root of the mountain has started listening for her.
Bought, bartered, and lied to her whole life, she learns the one power no one can the choice of who gets to keep her.
Why Choose Romance Vampire Romance Hades and Persephone Touch Her and Die Feral Touch-Starved Hero Gothic Fantasy Romance
Heat Dark-Explicit
Dark, Emotional
Series Book 1 of 3
HFN
Multi-POV, First Person, Present Tense
Ottilie Blythe keeps bees and thanks monsters by name. She was raised useful and sheltered and told it was love, and at the boundary stones she learns the tithe was never a sacrifice. It's custody, and her blood is the reason.
Emeric, the lord who signs for her, has buried eleven brides and swore never to want a twelfth.
Bram, his feral brother, wears chains he asked for and understands, before she does, exactly what her family made her.
Crispin, the court physician, draws her blood for her health and finds something in it that was never human.
Court law says an unbonded bride is drained to feed the failing veinlight at year's end. To live, Ottilie has to choose one of them, in front of a court that would rather she bleed. And something at the root of the mountain has started listening for her.
Bought, bartered, and lied to her whole life, she learns the one power no one can the choice of who gets to keep her.
Why Choose Romance Vampire Romance Hades and Persephone Touch Her and Die Feral Touch-Starved Hero Gothic Fantasy Romance
Heat Dark-Explicit
Dark, Emotional
Series Book 1 of 3
HFN
Multi-POV, First Person, Present Tense
286 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 1, 2026
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September 7, 2026
reminds you of a time before
Outside of my normal read but was excellent. It makes you read deeper and actually process the artistic wording to fully comprehend.
Outside of my normal read but was excellent. It makes you read deeper and actually process the artistic wording to fully comprehend.
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