when the monster smiled
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For years, the world feared one man.
Kings surrendered at the sound of his name.
Kingdoms burned beneath his armies.
And mercy was something he had never known.
Princess Seraphina has spent her entire life trapped inside a palace that never wanted her. Blamed for her mother's death and threatened by a stepmother determined to steal her birthright, she has learned that loneliness can be more painful than any battlefield.
When the infamous Black Conqueror sets his sights on her kingdom, everyone expects destruction.
No one expects him to notice her.
What begins as a war for a throne becomes something far more dangerous-a connection neither of them can escape.
Because monsters do not fall in love.
They become obsessed.
And when the most feared man in the world decides to protect the one person he should have destroyed, kingdoms will tremble once again.
A dark fantasy romance filled with political intrigue, dangerous devotion, forbidden attraction, and a villain who would burn the world for the girl he was meant to conquer.
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