**Bound by Blood, Chosen by Fate.** In the shadowed corridors of Ravenwood Manor, secrets are bound by blood and whispered though generations. Lucinda Ravenwood is destined for a darkness she cannot yet comprehend-a fate that takes shape on a moonlit night, when she encounters Alaric. He is dangerous, enigmatic, bound by an ancient oath to end her life-a vow etched in shadows and sworn centuries before she drew her first breath. But something within her calls to him, halting his hand where it once knew only certainty. What begins as menace blooms into obsession-an impossible love forged in defiance of death. As their hearts entwine against the tides of fate, Lucinda finds herself drawn deeper into the darkness, a world where desire and danger blur, and trust is a perilous gamble. Alaric, torn between the duty he cannot escape and the woman who has shaken his resolve, faces a choice that could shatter them both. In a world where betrayal is inevitable, and love is the greatest risk of all, they must confront the shadows that bind them. Some promises are written in blood, and some loves are as doomed as they are unstoppable.
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