The Tenth Bride
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Every hundred years, the Empire demands a blood price-ten noble-born virgin brides to seal away an ancient evil beneath the throne. None return. None are mourned.
Maya Smith, a 29-year-old lawyer from Earth, dies in a hit-and-run-only to awaken in the fragile body of Hannah Belmont, a noble girl who drowned under suspicious circumstances. Raised in hiding in the remote county of Alicorn, Hannah was believed dead after a fire destroyed her birth family. Now reborn into a life she doesn't understand, Maya carries chilling visions of a temple ritual and nine other doomed girls.
Someone tried to kill Hannah. Maya knows it. But first, she must escape the golden prison of the Salazaar manor-and the eyes watching her too closely.
With danger lurking in the halls of the Salazaar estate and nobles whispering of the upcoming selection, Maya must play the innocent while unraveling a deadly mystery. Her only chance at survival might lie with the cursed heir-a prince with red eyes, a savage bloodlust, and the power to unmake her world.
And for the first time in a thousand years, the chosen bride fights back.
A dark isekai romance thriller about betrayal, rebirth, and a forbidden bond that could doom-or save-the empire.
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