After accidentally binding an ancient vampire through your family’s blood ritual, you’re forced into a dangerous connection with someone who hates everything you are. She can’t kill you—but she wants to. The bond links your emotions, turning control into something unstable. As your family pushes you to use her as a weapon, and enemies close in, you refuse to treat her like something owned. What starts as hatred slowly shifts into tension neither of you can ignore. And if the bond breaks… one of you might not survive.
The border between Valedorn and Eryndale is forbidden for a reason. Ancient curses sleep beneath the kingdoms, and when Y/n crosses into enemy territory, she finds herself drawn to the black-haired heir everyone fears most.
✍️ Summary Britain, 1941. As war tears through the country, Eleanor Carter spends her nights working in an emergency hospital, surrounded by wounded civilians, air raids and the constant fear of losing someone she loves. Then she meets Evelyn Whitmore—the daughter of a powerful military officer, raised to be respectable, obedient and everything Eleanor is not. What begins as an unlikely friendship slowly becomes something neither woman can deny. But in a world where their love could destroy Evelyn’s family and ruin their reputations, they are forced to hide what they feel. Their only moments together are stolen between air raids, whispered beneath the blackout and written in letters that can never be allowed to fall into the wrong hands. But when Evelyn’s father discovers their closeness and decides to send her away, Eleanor and Evelyn are left with one impossible question: how do you hold onto someone when an entire world is determined to tear you apart?
The city is sinking, and every full moon someone must die. When you offer yourself in exchange for someone you love, you expect a monster—not a queen who looks at you like she’s already lost you. Queen Eva doesn’t believe in love. You don’t believe in her. But with the full moon approaching and the sea rising, something dangerous begins to grow between you: feelings neither of you can afford. Because when the time comes… she’ll have to choose.
For generations, your family has sworn to eradicate one vampire bloodline above all others: Seraphine Vale, an ancient vampire blamed for a massacre that turned her into the most feared creature in the region. You were raised to hate her. To hunt her. To kill her. But when you finally track Seraphine down, she doesn’t fight you. Instead, she tells you the truth: your family has been hunting the wrong monster for centuries. The massacre wasn’t what you were taught. The vampire you were ordered to kill may actually be the only reason your family has survived this long—and someone has been manipulating both hunters and vampires from the shadows. Now you’re forced into an uneasy alliance with the woman you’ve spent your entire life preparing to destroy. The problem? The closer you get to uncovering the truth, the harder it becomes to remember why you were supposed to hate her in the first place.
At Blackwood High, everyone knows Evelyn Hayes—the quiet girl everyone picks on. When you step in to defend her, an unexpected friendship begins to blossom. As feelings grow and secrets come to light, you’ll have to decide how far you’ll go to protect the girl who never believed anyone would choose her.
