Beneath the Bitter Moon
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Last published Tue, Jul 1, 2025
They say love and hate are two sides of the same coin. But what happens when that coin is cursed?
Lira Morgayne is fire-fierce, loyal, and sworn to protect her broken family from the people who destroyed it.
Devran Rhazien is ice-cold, calculating, and born into the bloodline that shattered hers.
Their worlds were never meant to collide again.
Their families made sure of that.
But fate? Fate loves to watch chaos bloom.
Dragged into a tangled web of secrets, betrayal, and a decades-old feud soaked in lies, Amara and Riven find themselves on the same side of a truth that could ruin them both.
They should hate each other-and they do. Until the lines start to blur. Until hate tastes too much like desire.
When every kiss is a betrayal and every secret could be fatal, how far will they go before love becomes the deadliest sin of all?
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