There's nothing Emma Chassèriaux can do to escape Matteo Lucchese, he'll make sure of it. After all, someone has to pay, right? "You're sick in the head, Matteo." My voice is thick with emotion, with vulnerability. How fucking dare he. "And you're delusional if you think I want anything to do with you after what you just did." He's quite the sight right now, composed but teetering on the edge. I can tell by the slight twitch in his left eye. His breath fans across the tip of my nose as he leans down, eyes flickering back and forth between my pupils shrewdly. "I own you, Emmy. It doesn't really matter what you fucking want." I'm tempted to pull my chin out of his grip when he suddenly grasps it firmly, his thumb digging into the side of my jaw. "When I tell you to jump, your only response should be 'How high, Matteo?'"

**BOOK II OF THE FOUR REALMS SERIES** When war came for Azura, Fara of Calate lost everything. Her husband, her new home, her freedom. When her captor - the formidable commander of the Leoth army - saves her life, she begins to see the enemy as something more than just the inhuman monsters she has feared all her life. When he finally gives her back her freedom, Fara must decide once and for all where her loyalty, and her heart lies. Stronger than she's ever been, and pregnant with the last heir of Azura, Fara returns home to the brother she risked everything to escape from. Can she finally confront her fears in order to save her people from more war? ******* Theodan of Teredia, defied his realm and his God when he chose to free Fara of Calate. Now, with the woman he loves released back to the nightmare she risked all to escape from, he will do all he can to keep his promise to her. As war hurtles ever closer and the echoes of history begin to murmur down through the ages, he will once again be forced to chose - this time between his very soul and that which is greater: love. **THIS BOOK CONTAINS MATURE THEMES THAT ARE NOT SUITABLE FOR YOUNGER READERS** Cover series design by @rentachi

Isaiah 14:12: "How you are fallen from Heaven, Lucifer, son of the Morning! How you are cut down from the ground, you who weakened the nations. For you have said in your heart...." "All of them, sleep in glory, Everyone in his house, but you are just a cast of your grave. Like an abominable branch, Like the garment of those who are slain, Thrust through with a sword, Who go down to the stones of the pit, Like a corpse trodden underfoot." + They say that when the Devil falls in love it will be a reckoning. The world will fall to shambles around us...but guess what, that same devil would protect his precious angel from his own destruction.