A Fate Forged in Legends and Bones

Evangeline Blake believes in facts, not fairy tales. As a history student in the modern world, she stumbles upon an obscure book detailing the legend of the Velcorian Empire and its infamous warlord, Kastiel Drovac. The myth interests her, but that's all it ever is-a story. Until she finds an antique necklace that won't come off and wakes up in the very empire she read about.

Kastiel, the man whose name filled the book's pages, is real-and far more terrifying in person. Scarred by war and betrayal, he has no patience for a woman who shouldn't exist in his world. Evangeline is just as desperate to escape him as he is to be rid of her. But when the necklace awakens a power long thought lost-the ability to control life and death-Kastiel realizes he can't let her go.

Hatred simmers between them. He is violent, unyielding, and sees her as a burden. She fears him, refuses to trust him, and clings to the hope of returning home. But war forces strange alliances, and when betrayal from Kastiel's inner circle delivers Evangeline into the hands of the emperor, both of them must confront an unsettling truth-they may be each other's only salvation.

The emperor offers Evangeline a choice: fight for him against the rebellion or be forced into marriage, ensuring his heirs inherit her power. Desperate to escape, she uncovers a secret that ties her fate to Kastiel's more than either of them realized-his mother, a woman who once wore the same necklace, may have walked between their worlds before her.

As the upcoming war reaches its breaking point, Kastiel and Evangeline must face an impossible choice-fight for a love that was never meant to last or let history take its course. But some stories refuse to fade, and as legends are rewritten, Evangeline will come to learn that myths are not just born from the past-they are shaped by those who live them.