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In the neon-soaked, blood-drenched gothic underground, power isn't given-it's bled for.
Diamond is the city's undisputed Popular Monster. A lethal Leo vampire cloaked in black velvet, wrapped in heavy metal chains, and wielding a blazing solar broadsword, she rules the criminal underworld with an iron fist. Alongside Palemoon, her ride-or-die enforcer and best friend, Diamond has built an empire atop the ashes of every enemy foolish enough to challenge her reign. She is unapologetic, razor-sharp, and completely in control.
Until Ryker Malakor Boran tears into her city.
An escaped pit-fighter and rogue hybrid juggernaut, Ryker is hunting the very syndicate that forged his chains. But the moment Diamond and Ryker collide, the underworld's balance of power shatters. Ryker's raw beast aura acts like pure accelerant on Diamond's vampiric bloodline-supercharging her solar flames, stripping away her restraint, and making her darker, faster, and infinitely more dangerous.
As rival cartels and ruthless syndicates mobilize to slaughter both the Popular Monster and the Hellhound Juggernaut, Diamond and Ryker are locked in a volatile, high-stakes alliance. But with their clashing alpha dominance sparking an intoxicating tension, Diamond finds herself slipping into savage, unchecked predation-straining her bond with Palemoon to its breaking point.
With the syndicates closing in and her humanity burning away, Diamond faces an impossible choice: extinguish the fire before it destroys her sisterhood and empire, or rule beside the beast and reduce the entire city to ash.