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Princess Alara Hawthorne was born with a heartbeat that should've never existed.
A vampire child, raised in a human kingdom, hidden behind palace walls-until the night the townspeople stormed the castle and slaughtered her family.
Everyone believes the Hawthorne bloodline died that night.
Everyone...except the person who saved her.
Now eighteen, Alara is a ghost in her own kingdom, protected by old magic, raised in the shadows, and destined to wear a crown soaked in grief. The humans call her kind deadborns, monsters cursed by blood. But Alara remembers who she once was: a light, a friend, a princess who loved and was loved by the human world.
Then she meets Lucien Vale, a human boy raised to fear everything she is, betrothed to the kingdom's golden darling, Destiny Rosara... who carries a secret of her own.
One stolen moment in the Hawthorne garden is all it takes.
One glance.
One spark.
One heartbeat too loud for a "monster."
As old lies unravel and forbidden love awakens, Alara must decide if she will become the monster they fear...
Or the queen, she was born to be.
In a kingdom built on bloodshed, love might be the one thing that truly refuses to die.