Fated & Bound

Kieran Azrael is an emperor of the modern world, a man who has lived for millennia and commands an immense, shadowy empire as a ruthless multimillionaire. Despite his near-limitless power, he is cursed: every partner who has ever dared to love him has met a swift and deadly end. He is powerful, lonely, and resigned to his fate as a solitary predator.
​Hedin Gabriel is the polar opposite. Kind, gentle, and utterly selfless, he has spent his life being taken for granted and cruelly bullied by his stepmother and stepsisters. When his beloved father falls gravely ill, a dark secret surfaces: years ago, the father secured his business empire through a desperate pact with a powerful, devilish vampire, promising his child as a sacrifice.
​With the pact's terms finally called due, Hedin's father is forced to surrender a child to be the unwilling bride of Kieran Azrael. To protect his family-even the ones who wronged him-Hedin willingly steps forward. He accepts the rumors he's heard-that to marry Kieran is to die-and prepares himself to be the final, necessary sacrifice.
​The ancient vampire and the selfless mortal are bound together in a marriage of dark obligation. Kieran expects a terrified victim, or perhaps a greedy schemer, but instead finds a quiet man who looks at him with a gentle, resigned acceptance of death. Hedin has nothing left to lose and, for the first time in his life, refuses to be afraid.
​As the days turn to weeks, Hedin doesn't die. His simple, pure presence seems to baffle the curse that has plagued Kieran for centuries. The vampire is faced with a profound dilemma: the one person he might finally be able to love is the one person he is contracted to destroy. For Hedin, survival means entering a terrifying, dangerous life he never wanted, but perhaps also finally finding the affection he was denied.
​The greatest sacrifice was made not just to save his family, but to break a curse thousands of years in the making.