♛ He pressed a soft kiss across her knuckles, the caress sending a blaze into her arm. The air between them glimmered, and Evira could not miss the wraithlike chains that passed from her hand and into his chest-chains, like those that wound around a prisoner.
"I am yours to command," he spoke, his words a lingering whisper. ♛
There are no such things as guardian angels - but there are guardian demons. And 17-year-old Evira has more than one. When two Demon Knights emerge from Hell and claim her as their charge, she learns that her entire life has been a devastating lie.
A powerful goddess has set a deadly game in motion, and she has chosen Evira as its key player. With her dangerously handsome guardians in tow, Evira has no choice but to face terrifying monsters and seductive deities on her quest to discover who she is, "what" she is.
Tasked with restoring order to the underworld, she must find the missing Demon Prince, the last royal of the Sapphire bloodline and heir to Hell's throne. If Evira fails, Hell will unleash unspeakable horrors on the mortal realm, and Heaven's destructive retribution will ensue.
Warning: descriptive imagery may be frightening for some. Also contains sexual references.
*Cover design by me.
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"You're playing with fire Safania."
"Good thing I don't burn."
The last words he spoke before throwing me onto my bed sounded like a threat, but felt more like a promise.
"You will."
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Don't get caught. Those are the three words Safania has lived by for the past five years. As a marked woman - easily identified by intricate bronze marks on her back and unpredictable special abilities - she has spent the past five years running from anyone who might exploit those abilities...especially the royal families who tortured marked women to build their empires. Starving, exhausted, and frozen, she collapses by the bank of a river just to wake up in her worst nightmare: the chambers of a prince.
Prince Cassius is his father's first choice of his three brothers to ascend to the throne. He's smart, strategic, and stoic, unlike his corrupt and depraved brothers. There's just one problem: he has no interest in any of his proposed marital matches, and the King will only pick someone as his successor who he knows will carry on the family line. But once he meets Safania, he finds himself unable to imagine ruling the kingdom without her by his side. Can he convince her to trust him?
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Warning: this story contains mature and potentially triggering themes including domestic violence and sexual assault. Reader discretion is advised.