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A Kiss Before Dusk [BOOK 1]
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In a kingdom where sunlight ruled and secrets festered beneath silk and stone, a princess lived behind walls built to protect her from the world-and from herself. Her days were scripted, her smiles practiced, her future sealed in ink and royal blood.
But beyond the garden wall, past curfews and caution, something ancient stirred. A presence forgotten by time but remembered by shadows. He was a creature of night-cursed, hunted, and hollowed by centuries of silence. A vampire whose name was feared in legend and buried by decree.
When their paths crossed beneath a blood-moon sky, fate did not ask permission. It only demanded a price.
This is the story of Seraphina, the girl born to wear a crown, and Lucien, the monster taught to hate it.
And how love, when truly forbidden, becomes the most dangerous kind of magic.
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