Astra_nightfall
A hatred that tastes like blood.
Aella, the last Obsidian Hunter, dedicated her life to a single purpose: plunging silver into the heart of Kaelen, the ancient, aristocratic vampire lord who extinguished her entire order. But vengeance must
wait.
Kaelen has a rival, a zealot named Veridian, whose ambition threatens to plunge the entire mortal world into mindless chaos. To protect his own reign, Kaelen makes Aella an impossible offer: a temporary, coerced alliance to destroy Veridian. The price? Aella must become his most valuable, closest asset.
Trapped in the suffocating intimacy of Kaelen's shadows, Aella is forced to exchange sacred secrets for survival. Every shared heartbeat is a step further into betrayal, and every dangerous touch from her nemesis pushes her hatred closer to a fatal, catastrophic desire.
In the Crimson Bargain, the only thing more deadly than their enemy is the mounting, undeniable obsession between the hunter and the hunted. If they succeed, Aella earns the right to kill him. If they fail, they die together, bound by a pact sealed in fire and blood.