As a lowborn mage hiding among humans, Lyra has spent her life with her coven, her family quietly healing the sick, dodging suspicion, and trying to stay out of the vampire court’s cruel gaze. 

But when her parents are captured and sentenced without mercy, she makes a desperate choice, embrace forbidden dark magic and infiltrate the court disguised as a vampire.

She wants revenge and to save her family and, She has a plan. But everything unravels when she unexpectedly saves the life of Prince Kael… and is rewarded with a royal engagement she never wanted.

Kael, heir to the throne and a secret reformist, has his own agenda—an alliance that could change everything. Lyra’s sudden appearance disrupts his carefully laid plans, and to him, she’s just another spoiled vampire noble with a pretty face and no substance. Until she begins to prove him wrong.

Forced into a marriage neither of them chose, Lyra and Kael find themselves circling each other in a palace full of lies, and scheming.

Somewhere in between, something dangerous begins to grow—trust, longing… maybe even love.

But Lyra’s dark magic is a ticking time bomb, and if her secret is discovered, she won’t just lose the prince—she’ll lose her life.

Can two enemies build an alliance strong enough to challenge the vampire court itself? Or will the system they’re trying to change consume them both?

Chapter 1 - jjjJ