Blood remembers.
And the Cruorem line bleeds deepest of all.
Princess Antoinette was born beneath a red moon and raised behind the stone walls of Yazara's palace, her immortal heart a secret even her silks cannot disguise. She is no half-breed shadow of legend, but a full vampire: cursed to hunger, destined to rule, and heir to a kingdom balanced on the knife-edge of war.
On the night of the Commonwealth Ball, celebration turns to omen. A phantom archer shatters the music, a Seer arrives with a dragon at her heel, and a prophecy coils through the halls like smoke:
White hair like bone. Blood that floods the world. Betrayal written in a brother's hand.
As rival kingdoms stir and the ruthless Brotherhood sharpens its nightshade blades, Antoinette must walk a path littered with forgotten gods and buried treacheries. Ancient tapestries whisper of dragons who never truly died. Her father hides truths that could unmake a dynasty. And somewhere in the Outskirts, the man who took her mother's life waits.
To claim her birth right she must embrace the magic in her veins, a power that tastes of storm and iron, even as it threatens to consume her. The curse that made her will demand a price: love or kingdom, heart or soul.
The moon is rising.
The hunters are waiting.
And the heir of Yazara will either break the curse...
Or become it.