Shadows Of The Obsidian Rose

She awoke in a body not her own - a villainess doomed to die by the hand of the man who would one day wear the crown.
Velanora De Luthaine was never meant to love the duke who despised her. Killian Blackthorn saw only a schemer, a poisoner, a chain forged by her father's armies and her name. He vowed to break her - slowly, publicly - and claim the De Luthaine fortune for the empire while returning to the saintess who once saved his life.
But Velanora is no longer the villainess of the story she once read.
She is a stranger wearing a stranger's skin, armed only with the knowledge of a book that ends in her execution. Every tear she sheds is defiance. Every silence is strategy. Every time she refuses to kneel, she carves another crack in the cage he built around her.
Killian expects a monster.
He finds a woman who weeps without sound, who fights without screaming, who looks at him like he is both executioner and salvation. The hatred he nursed so carefully begins to rot from the inside. The plan he made with Seraphine begins to feel like a noose around his own throat.
Seraphine Lumière watches from exile - halo dimmed, light turned venomous - and promises a return that will burn everything he has begun to cherish.
A blood moon ritual approaches.
A crown waits to be claimed.
A marriage forged in politics threatens to dissolve unless an heir is produced.
And in the shadows of the obsidian rose, two people who were never meant to love each other must decide:
Will they break each other to survive the coming darkness?
Or will they burn the world together to keep the only thing that ever felt real?
Shadows of the Obsidian Rose - a gothic dark romance of betrayal, obsession, shattered vows, and a love so dangerous it might just save them both.