LilythVespera
✧ Blood Wars ✧
For five centuries, Vampires ruled the Twelve Islands through conquest, occupation, and chains.
For two hundred years, the Lycans fought back.
Now, for the first time in living memory, both sides have agreed to sit at the same table.
King Luther of Amor believes peace is possible. Queen Maya has seen enough of the future to know it may also kill him.
On the neutral island of Dragomir, five Vampire kingdoms and five Lycan territories gather for a seven-day summit meant to decide the fate of occupied lands, enslaved people, old borders, and a war that has shaped generations.
But peace has enemies.
Old grudges survive beneath polished diplomacy. Missing weapons threaten to turn allies against one another. Forbidden poisons reappear. Ancient powers stir. And someone has already begun preparing for a king to die.
Among those caught between loyalty and betrayal is Crown Prince Roulf of Amor, a warrior who never wanted a throne and has spent nearly two centuries denying the bond tying him to Princess Taya of Varun. Taya has secrets of her own-secrets involving blood, lineage, and a heritage powerful men have worked very hard to keep buried.
Around them, rulers, Clan Leaders, soldiers, healers, former slaves, husbands, wives, and bonded mates must decide what peace is actually worth.
Because ending a war is not the same as repairing what created it.
Freedom does not erase memory.
A mate bond does not guarantee love.
And sometimes the greatest threat to peace is not hatred.
It is what people are willing to sacrifice to keep the world exactly as it was.
Seven days were given to prove peace possible.
Someone intends to make certain they never reach the end.