Price of Vengeance

Some debts are paid in blood. Some secrets should have stayed buried.

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For years, the Court of Embers has waited for the Winterbourne bloodline to pay for the murder of their king.

Now, the debt has come due.

Lira Winterbourne has spent her life surviving a father who rules through fear. When she's sent to the rival Court of Embers, she believes she's being offered as part of a political arrangement.

She's wrong.

She's the blood-price.

Entered into the brutal Proving Games, Lira is expected to fight, suffer, and eventually pay for a crime she didn't commit. And the one person determined to see her fall is Corvin Draeven-the king whose father was murdered by hers.

Corvin has built his reign on vengeance. He has sworn that the Winterbourne bloodline will answer for what it took from him.

He never expected her.

As hatred turns to reluctant respect and forced proximity blurs the lines between enemy and desire, Lira begins uncovering fragments of a history her family has spent generations burying.

Ancient blood-oaths. A forgotten betrayal. A power that was never meant to be awakened.

And when blood is spilled, something stirs.

Something neither court can explain.

Something that may change the fate of Thornmere forever.

Because some secrets don't stay buried.

And some bonds are far more dangerous than vengeance.