**They called her worthless. The Abyss proved them catastrophically wrong.** Born to a bathhouse servant, Nyra was the Empire's favorite victim. For eighteen years, nobles bet on which beast would tear her apart first, watching her flesh regrow for the next round. They called her "worthless bastard," "abomination." On her eighteenth birthday, phoenix fire erupted from her spine-the rarest core in existence. The divine mark of imperial blood. The Empress's solution was swift: steal her core, give it to Princess Selena, cast Nyra into the Abyssal Rift. But the ancient demons didn't devour her. They adopted her. Seven years later, she's back. The nobles are dying impossibly. Selena's stolen core burns her alive. And something ancient stirs beneath Whitestone Peak. When she meets Ronan Fenwick-the beast-hunter whose mark burns for the creature he must kill-everything changes. He's hunting her. She's his fated mate. The girl they called worthless carries secrets that predate empires. The Therion throne thought they buried their shame. They're about to learn phoenixes don't stay buried. *Where monsters wear crowns and stolen power demands blood.*
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