In a kingdom where courtly intrigue hides ancient horrors, Zavier lives as a ghost—an elite assassin cursed with the spirit of an Adze, a creature that feeds on corruption and slips through shadows like smoke.

He is sent to kill Lady Seraphina Durell, a noblewoman feared as a rising villainess and condemned for practicing forbidden magic.

But Seraphina is not a monster—she is a prodigy abandoned by her legendary mother, driven into darkness by envy, neglect, and voices that promised the belonging she never had.

When Zavier hesitates, defying his contract for the first time, two outcasts collide: an assassin cursed to hunger for souls, and a girl drowning in power she was never taught to control.

Hunted by the court and haunted by ancient curses, they must survive a kingdom eager to see them fall.

Zavier must choose whether he is her executioner—or her salvation.

And Seraphina must decide if she will become the villain the world expects…
or rewrite her fate alongside the one man who sees her truth.


The cover is ai generated, of the main villainess

Chapter 1 - well....