A story about a group of girls and someone in their family dies and they get sick 1 by 1

Princess Scarlett never expected her compassion to become her prison. While helping the Nizhoni people survive Prince Lakota's brutal campaign of conquest, Scarlett and her brother Michael are captured and thrown into the prince's dungeons. To save her brother and the innocent prisoners facing starvation and execution, Scarlett agrees to a marriage she never wanted. Trapped inside Lakota's castle, Scarlett fights to protect the Nizhoni people from within, earning their trust while secretly searching for a way to free them. But deep beneath the castle she discovers a mysterious elderly prisoner named Tristan-a dying man forgotten by everyone. Or so she believes. When Scarlett learns that Tristan is actually the legendary Vampyr King of the Nizhoni, weakened after years of imprisonment and denied blood, everything changes. As Lakota's ambitions grow darker and war looms on the horizon, Scarlett and Tristan form an unlikely alliance to escape the castle and rally the Nizhoni people against their oppressors. Bound by sacrifice, haunted by loss, and hunted by a prince determined to possess her, Scarlett must choose between duty and freedom before an entire people are lost forever. A sweeping gothic fantasy filled with romance, danger, vampires, and the enduring power of courage.