by ceek.852
"I was bred to be a weapon, but I chose to be his salvation." Kora Solari was the "failed" 21st child of the Solaris Empire—a hybrid born in a dungeon and raised in the shadows of a tyrant father. For twelve years, she hid her magic and her soul in the pages of dark romance novels, dreaming of a freedom that never came. Then came Valerius Valmont—the Architect of Ruin. An engineered predator rotting from a terminal curse, Valerius didn't want Kora's heart; he wanted her blood. But in the cold halls of the Nocturnal Dominion, the master-slave bond begins to bleed into something far more dangerous. As Valerius teaches Kora to sharpen her magic, she teaches him the cost of kindness. Now, with a kingdom to reclaim and a three-hundred-year-old curse to break, they must decide: are they two monsters destined to destroy each other, or the Sovereigns who will watch the world burn together?
