Sugar: A Dark Romance
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Aurelia Wynter plays the piano like she's bleeding straight into the keys, every note steeped in longing. Her music draws Cassian, an immortal bound by a hunger he cannot tame, into her world. He's intoxicating, dangerous, and impossible to resist.
But Cassian has secrets carved in centuries of lies. He swore to protect Aurelia from his curse, yet every stolen moment with her feeds the darkness inside him. The closer they become, the deeper she's pulled into his shadowed underworld of Hollowed, where beauty is a lure and love is a knife.
Their fates are bound in blood and music, she must decide whether to sever their bond forever... or let his darkness consume her completely.
In a world where desire is deadly, love may be the sweetest sin of all.
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