The Devotion of Monsters

"Curiosity killed the cat."

It should have killed Amren centuries ago.

When a strange female appears at the border between the Day and Summer Courts, hidden within a facility jointly owned by High Lords Helion and Tarquin, she becomes the center of Prythian's newest controversy. Neither prisoner nor citizen, she exists in a legal gray area-living under a contract she signed willingly, sold into a system she claims she chose for herself.

Everyone believes they know what she is.

Everyone is wrong.

She laughs at the wrong moments. Smiles at threats. Treats High Lords like annoying neighbors. And behind her eyes lurks something ancient enough to make monsters hesitate.

Amren tells herself she's only curious.

Curious about the female who never flinches.

Curious about the female who looks at death like an old friend.

Curious about the female whose loneliness feels hauntingly familiar.

But curiosity becomes conversation.

Conversation becomes obsession.

And obsession becomes something far more dangerous.

Because the deeper Amren digs, the more impossible the truth becomes.

Some creatures aren't made by the Cauldron.

Some loves aren't blessed by fate.

And some bonds are older than the stars themselves.

As political tensions rise, secrets surface, and ancient powers begin to wake, Amren finds herself facing a choice she never thought she'd have to make:

Protect the world she knows...

Or choose the female who could burn it to ash.

"They called me a monster."

"What did you tell them?"

"That monsters deserve to be loved too."