He’s the dusk-crowned villain I should fear… and the fate I can’t outrun.

I’m Hannah, a girl who thought she was mortal and should’ve known better than to listen to whispers beneath rowan roots.

One prick from a cursed dagger. One touch against a bewitched mirror. And I fall into Dusk, a realm at war that doesn’t see a woman.

It sees a bargaining chip.

Because Kairos doesn’t look at me like a mortal mistake. He looks at me like a key.

All I want is to go home.

But the moment I crash into the Dusk King’s frozen castle, everything goes wrong. King Kairos—the bastard who took his crown in blood—goes still when his gaze catches on my hair and my eyes. Like he’s seen a ghost.

Something in him locks into place.

And a pull in my chest answers.

Then his expression turns to ice. He calls me trespasser and locks me in his dungeon, cutting off my only chance to find a way back to Earth.

He doesn’t have to touch me to make my skin prickle.
He doesn’t have to threaten me to steal my breath.
He haunts me like a nightmare… like he already knows what I am, and what I’m worth.

And if I want out, I’ll have to survive him first.

Now I must decide: run from the monster wearing Dusk’s crown… …or stay long enough to learn the truth—and pay the price with my freedom.

Either way, I won’t be the girl who bows.
No matter the cost.

One-click this dark royal fae romantasy packed with fated mates, villain-gets-the-girl energy, forced proximity, found family, political intrigue, touch-her-and-die devotion, “who did this to you?” rage, burn-the-world-down love, and a brutal war between two courts.