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She was sent to end him with one deadly kiss.
He survived - and made her his queen instead.
Lyra Vesper doesn't just kill kings.
She makes them beg for it first.
Trained since childhood as the Assassin Guild's ultimate weapon, her blood is pure venom and her lips are death. One taste and any man dies screaming in agony.
On the night of King Riven Blackwood's coronation, she slips into the feast disguised as a courtesan, poisons his wine, and seals the kill with a slow, taunting kiss in the shadowed alcove.
He should have died.
Instead, the poison backfires. The ancient blood curse awakens, binding their souls in a vicious, insatiable mating bond. Now Lyra is dragged to the altar in chains of black velvet and gold, forced to marry the ruthless, battle-scarred king she tried to murder.
Riven doesn't want revenge.
He wants her - every venomous inch - and he will break her resistance night after night until she craves the monster she was sent to destroy.
But the bond is two-way.
Every time he touches her, she feels his pain. Every time she fights him, he feels her desire.
With the Guild hunting her for failure, rival lords sharpening knives, and a kingdom on the brink of war, Lyra must decide:
Kill the only man whose touch doesn't burn her alive...
or surrender to the throne - and the king - that now owns her body, her blood, and the darkest parts of her heart.